Over a billion Muslims around the world are getting ready to celebrate Ramadan, which begins on Friday, February 28th at sundown. Shake Up Your Celebrations is a campaign that highlights books featuring a variety of holidays, traditions, and celebrations. Many of these holidays are underrepresented in classroom and library programming, which often centers around Christmas and other Christian holidays. Shake Up Your Shelves and build a more inclusive bookcase!
Weddings showcase many family, religious, and cultural traditions. In Natasha Khan Kazi's Lulu in the Spotlight, readers see a tradition common at many South Asian weddings - a game where young people try to steal one of the groom's shoes! The book is a fun way to introduce readers to different kinds of wedding traditions or reflect their own experiences in a beautifully illustrated picture book.
Here, the creator shares her inspiration behind this book as well as why it's so important to #shakeupyourcelebrations and share traditions like these with readers.
When author Joanna Ho had children, she began looking for Christmas books with Asian characters and found none. So, she decided to write one of her own! Shake Up Your Celebrations this Christmas with this cute and inclusive picture book.
The picture book They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park tells the history of a historic park in Houston, Texas that is connected to the origins of the holiday known as Juneteenth—in the park’s own voice. Author Tonya Duncan Ellis sat down with illustrator Jenin Mohammed to discuss their creative processes.
Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6, the 12th day following Christmas. It commemorates the day the three wise men, sometimes referred to as Kings or Magi, came to visit the newly born Jesus and bring him gifts. This holiday, also known as the Epiphany, is celebrated in many different countries and cultures throughout the world with food and gifts.
There's nothing better than making a cup of tea, grabbing your favorite blanket, and curling up on the couch with a great book. Here are some of our favorite seasonal reads to make your winter book displays as inviting as a warm fire and cup of cocoa on a snowy day.
The Holiday Season is just around the corner, so we enlisted author Liz Kleinrock to talk to us more about the inspiration for her book Come and Join Us which features 18 holidays celebrated throughout the year and around the world.
Shake Up Your Celebrations is a campaign that highlights books featuring a variety of holidays, traditions, and celebrations. Many of these holidays are underrepresented in classroom and library programming, which often centers around Christmas and other Christian holidays. Learn more...
Shake Up Your Celebrations is a campaign that highlights books featuring a variety of holidays, traditions, and celebrations. Many of these holidays are underrepresented in classroom and library programming, which often centers around Christmas and other Christian holidays. Learn more...
