Check out author, Julie Leung's website. Check out illustrator, Julie Kwon's website. May is Asian/Pacific Heritage Month and I am celebrating with a post about Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American female pilot in the U.S. military. Hazel Ying Lee joined the military in 1943, when the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) program was… Continue reading Big Picture 6: Persistence
Read about the author, Margaret Wild. Check out illustrator, Freya Blackwood's website. Current world events had me thinking of this book, and I knew I had to check it out from the library again. The text and illustrations make the theme of this book accessible to children in kindergarten through 3rd grade, but I could… Continue reading Big Picture 4: Resilience
Check out Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter's websites. After I purchased this at my son's Scholastic Book Fair (for myself--doesn't everyone love Book Fairs?!), I am sad to admit that it sat on my desk collecting dust for a few months before I finally decided to read it. And now that I have, I… Continue reading Big Picture 2: Kindness
Check out Author-Illustrator, Juana Martinez-Neal's website. Wow! Juana Martinez-Neal's book, Zonia's Rain Forest, delivers a powerful message in so few words. There are multiple "big picture" ideas you can take from this book, but for your sake (and mine), I am going to stay focused on the issue of deforestation. If you haven't read this… Continue reading Big Picture 1: Deforestation
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