CHILDREN'S BOOK CORNER

Here is a selection of books related to the holidays and special days of this month, recommended for your child’s reading pleasure, related stamps are also highlighted.

JULY BIRTHDAYS

THURGOOD MARSHALL ~ July 2nd

THURGOOD

Jonah Winter, author

Bryan Collier, illustrator

Overview: This book states the “facts” in the life of Thurgood Marshall that made him into a man who fought for justice and against the laws that legalized racial segregation. As a lawyer for the NAACP, Marshall fought time and time again against racial injustice and in many of his cases he won. Marshall helped to knock down the walls of racial injustice.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) ~ (Issued: 1/7/03 – Scott # 3746)

SATCHEL PAIGE ~ July 7th

A NEGRO LEAGUE SACRPBOOK

Carole Boston Weatherford, author
Forward by Buck O’Neil

Overview: This book takes a unique look at a remarkable era in sports. With lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, this book presents a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time.
Contains a list of ~ TheS First Blacks on Major League Teams. and the Black players from the Negro Leagues that have been honored in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Satchel Paige (1906 – 1982) ~ Baseball player; the first African-American pitcher in the American League and the first representative of the Negro League to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

(Issued: 7/6/00 with “Legends of Baseball” stamps – Scott # 3408p)

AMERICA’S 250th BIRTHDAY ~ July 4th

THE 1619 PROJECT: BORN ON THE WATER

Nikole Hannah-Jones and

Renee Watson, authors

Nillolas Smith, illustrator

Overview: A girl questions her ancestry, when she is faced with a class assignment to tell about her ancestors. Her grand-mother proceeds to tell her about her African ancestors and who they were before slavery in America. The girl is told about how the Africans from different ethnic groups, sold into slavery, became a people “born on the water” who created a legacy for free Black Americans.

FREE AT LAST

Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, author

Alex Bostic, illustrator

Overview: This is a poem that celebrates the holiday of Juneteenth by tells of the various actions people took when they learned they were free.

SING A SONG

Kelly Starling Lyons, author

Keith Mallett, illustrator

Overview: This book follows a family through events in their lives as the words of the poem, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” continues to inspire them and gives them strength and hope through the years.

ALL BECAUSE YOU MATTER

Tami Charles, author

Bryan Collier, illustrator

Overview: This book highlights the events in a child’s life. It features the contributions of one’s ancestors and notes the development of the child through a world filled with love, hope and affirmation that “Black Lives Matter.