I’m way behind on posting some of my library class units and hanging my student galleries. Last month I read Skin Again (illustrated by Chris Raschka) and Homemade Love (illustrated by Shane W. Evans) by bell hooks to all the first grade classes. I would have read all of bell hooks’ children’s books, but I had a lot of trouble finding them. So I read those two, and we talked a lot about all the different things that make us unique and fun.
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I’m a fan of bell hooks’s picture books, especially those illustrated by Chris Raschka. I did a bell hooks program in February using Be Boy Buzz, Skin Again, and Happy to Be Nappy. I think the illustrations are wonderful and they are lyrical stories. They can be tricky for read-alouds unless you read them with a lyrical tone and act out some of the emotions. Some of my kids loved the books, some of them didn’t.
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