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Equal Read

@EqualRead

Increasing diversity in children's literature so kids can see themselves and a world of possibility in the books they read.

 Oakland, CA
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Joined April 2014
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Another great book of the day @penguinrandom penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
Book of the day: I Dissent By Debbie Levy shar.es/1OGCJV via @SimonSchuster
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Shop Whole Foods Market (Telegraph & Gilman stores) Dec 14, so we can give more engaging, diverse books to Berkeley schools this season!
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Equal Read is thrilled to be Whole Foods Market’s 5% community donation recipient December 14! (Berkeley, CA’s Gilman and Telegraph stores)
Reading While White: On White Fragility, by Guest Blogger Justine Larbalestier readingwhilewhite.blogspot.c…
Happy #independentbookstoreday @MoppsBooks @LaurelBookStore @BooksIncEvents @pegasusbooks @dieselboostore others too indiemap.bookweb.org/
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Best Children's Books of the Year, 2016 Edition wp.me/p2nrBP-CE via @BankStreetLib
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Carole Boston Weatherford & Ekua Holmes received the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Voice of Freedom #wmnshist – at United States
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Looking forward to seeing Bank Street's best books of 2016 today! What were your 2015 favs? d2mguk73h8xisw.cloudfront.ne…
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Happy #WorldBookDay!
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Happy #multiculturalchildrensbookday! See new @Tolerance_org tool for increasing diverse reading tolerance.org/publication/re…

Reading Diversity

Including diverse voices is a priority in K–12 classrooms. Learning for Justice offers a unique model to make it easier: Reading Diversity.

splcenter.org
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Happy Multicultural Children's Book Day! @MCChildsBookDay New @Tolerance_org tool: tolerance.org/publication/re… #WeNeedDiverseBooks #diversebooks

Reading Diversity

Including diverse voices is a priority in K–12 classrooms. Learning for Justice offers a unique model to make it easier: Reading Diversity.

splcenter.org
A worthy reminder for the new year: The danger of a single story ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adi…
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Congrats Matt de la Peña, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Thanhha Lai & Sharon Draper on 2015 NYTimes Notable Children's Books list! nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books…
Notable Children’s Books of 2015 (Published 2015)

Notable Children’s Books of 2015 (Published 2015)

The best in picture books, middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, selected by the children’s books editor of The New York Times Book Review.

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Reading to NICU babies improves development - study by @ReachOutandRead and @The_BMC bit.ly/1FH0ts2 #ece
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"Brilliance is: your passion, recognized" - Jackie Woodson, CSK Awards Breakfast, ALA15 #WeNeedDiverseBooks
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"I will never give up on the world we have yet to make" - Christopher Myers, CSK Awards Bfast ALA15 @diversebooks
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"The magic is in the rewrite" - Christopher Myers, quoting Walter Dean Myers, CSK Awards Bfast #WeNeedDiverseBooks
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Hooray! xitter.cf/BuzzFeedCeleb/status/6…
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Go to baybookfest.org/content/sche… 6/6&7 hear @MitaliPerkins & visit @moppsbooks @bookpassage & publicservice.berkeley.edu/b… for @EqualRead giveaways!
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