The Power Of Art: 5 Inclusive Picture Books

Art is such a beautiful expression, it can evoke emotions and speak to truths that can be hard to articulate.  It also can often serve as a powerful tool for change, for revolution, to spark people to stand up and make changes. Hannah Givens, let me twist her arm... or, uhm, I mean... volunteered to …

Banned Books Week: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Alison Bechdel Reasons for Challenges:  Violence and other (“graphic images”) This is a graphic-memoir exploring Alison Bechdel's relationship with her father alongside her personal exploration of self.  It's a pretty quick read, and very powerfully done. A number of the challenges to this book have been on the …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I TOTALLY meant to read this summer

Every week The Broke and the Bookish  hosts the “Top Ten Tuesdays” a great blog-hop for readers to reflect on their "Top Ten" This weeks topic is a Freebie, so I'm going to admit to how much I fell apart on my reading this summer.  Here are ten of the books I had planned to …