![]() Parents, teachers, and middle graders all will learn something from the book, even if it only the importance of being a reading model for the children in their lives. And guess what? There's not an AR test or point, a star, or a pizza party among the suggestions. In this book she describes what happened next, discusses social media and how to become an activist, and shares tips for getting young readers motivated to read. An avid reader, Marley quickly found a response and a campaign in her own concerns about the lack of books with black female protagonists, both in libraries, bookstores, and in her school curriculum. Marley began the #1000blackgirlbooks movement back when she was 11 and a sixth grader looking for a response to her mother's question about what one thing she'd like to change in the world. ![]() With her fresh, honest and often humorous voice, the young social and literacy activist Marley Diaz speaks out in this book. I also see my students flipping through this one for Marley’s pictures and her many different style/personality poses throughout the book, arguing with each other about which portrait and style they like the most and why. Scholastic recommends this for grades 4+, and I would just heavily emphasize a high value for the middle school market on this one. I appreciate that the cover looks somewhat mature - like a general self-help book - but the text and pacing is more elementary school than high school. This is that perfect rainy day book for a middle schooler - when they are done with Guinness Book of World Records and finished re-re-re-reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books in my classroom. I would have loved an index in the back of the book about other amazing black girls that we should know about. It’s mentioned in the next that both Jackie and Rita are Newbery Medalists, but it’s hard to understand why that’s interesting/important/significant. I imagine that our readers might not know who these black women are and might not be able to contextualize their significance next to their photos. I see a lot of celebs in this book - Ava Du Vernay, Rita Williams-Garcia, Jackie Woodson…. ![]() Not comprehension, but background knowledge. If I could heart eye emoji this list to the power of heart eye emoji, I would. Parts are about Marley and her life parts are a how-to on activism (including a brief but honest look into social media harassment and racist online comments) parts are about books and reading.Īnd yes, there’s a directory of books by and about black girls in the back of the book. The two-column text format and generous use of color is coordinated beautifully - I often see young adult nonfiction use a two-column format to ill effect, but here the size and pacing of the text balances well against the two columns on a page. Part autobiography, part activism how-to, all fun, selfies, celebrities and all from Marley Dias, founder of #1000blackgirlbooks and hopelessly cool teen.Ĭompulsively readable and skimmable, with clear chapter headings and even sections on each page. But if you’re gonna be all “why only black girls and not ALL girls” I’m gonna just say BYE!Īdvance Reader Copy Received from Scholastic My love for diverse books are mainly following the American literary activism and I feel that it is time to localize.Īnyway, I do recommend this book, for children and adults alike. It actually inspired me to try to track children’s and young adult publishing in Sweden since it mainly features white able-bodied, cishet people. It was fun, to the point, and yes, inspiring. I just received it and opened it and wow! Okay, even though the audiobook was good, the book is just so creatively outlined with many pictures and neat designs!Īnyway, I’m ranting, it’s just I really appreciate Marley’s project and her book. What I did was, I bought the physical book. ![]() There were so many great thoughts about activism and changing the reality when you know that narratives have been erased from it, especially your own as a black girl. It was such a great read! And I wish it would be available in Swedish, so I could give it to all children and teenagers I know! So, I listened to the audio book, and although it was not Marley herself reading the book, Damaras Obi did a great job. 55) and my heart just melted, such a personality! Anyway, so when I was looking through new books in my Storytel app and found this one, I was thrilled. But I think she made the biggest impression when she was on the podcast Another Round (ep. I first heard of Marley Dias when #WeNeedDiverseBooks linked an article about her project of #1000blackgirlbooks ages ago.
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