What Makes You Happy?

What Makes You Happy?
by Marie-Agnès Gaudrat-Pourcel (Author) and Carmen Sole Vendrell (Illustrator)

Booktalk: With gatefolded (lift-the-flap) pages, this book asks open-ended questions about what it means to be happy. Rather than offering a set of ready-made answers and morals, it encourages children to think and feel for themselves. Families can engage with topics like altruism, curiosity, selfishness, and benevolence as they inspire children to make up their own minds about how best to live, love and care for themselves and others.

Snippet:
What makes us happy?
Hiding who you really are?
Or simply being yourself?

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The Bell Rang

The Bell Rang
by James E. Ransome (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom.

Snippet:
Thursday
I wake to the sound
of Mama and Daddy
searching,
looking.
No sun in the sky.
Mama crying.
No Ben.
Daddy crying.
Ben ran.

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