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#bookscomeinallcolors / #iamthelibrarydragon Repost @iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ I said it before and I’ll say it again: #BookMail is the best mail! Many thanks to Stephen (@scribesandvibes) for the book! I wish I had a children’s book like this - to know that it is okay to embrace my inner power. To know that I do belong - I don’t need to choose which culture I resonate with more because I am all of them. To be okay with not being okay. To hope and to dream. To stand up against injustice. I think I turned out okay but it warms my heart to know that there are stories like this that are giving children everywhere the courage to just be. 📖: “#TheManyMeaningsofMeilan” By #AndreaWang (@andreawhywang) 🧋 Plushie (Almond milk Thai)’s name: Boba (Vanessa’s Dumplings on the UWS, @vanessasdumplinghouse) -@iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ #vibewise: #weallneeddifferentbookstolove, #findyourtribe. -#scribesandvibes https://www.instagram.com/p/CTD4cQZrL7f/?utm_medium=tumblr

#nationalbookloversday / #iamthelibrarydragon Repost @iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ Happy National Book Lover's Day! I wanted to share with you the books I purchased for myself as a birthday present. Titles 📚 "Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping" by Matthew Salesses "Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money, and Success" by Tayannah Lee McQuillar "Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling" by Linda Goss, Marian E. Barnes, and Jr. Henry Louis Gates "Unraveling" by Karen Lord "The Forest in Folklore and Mythology" by Alexander Porteous "The Poetry of Derek Walcott: 1948-2013" by Derek Walcott (Author), Glyn Maxwell (Editor) --> Purchased this book from Shakespeare & Co on the UWS (@shakeandco.booksellers) I purchased the other books from Bookshop (@bookshop_org) - They will support Scribes & Vibes (@scribesandvibes) and independent bookstores everywhere! For me, part of being a bookdragon is supporting bookstores, libraries, cultural centers, and similar places. Places that support community and building an inclusive world 🌎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CSYShj7LLiO/?utm_medium=tumblr

#iamthelibrarydragon / #folktales & #fables week #Repost @iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ I just found out from my friend Stephen of Scribes and Vibes (@scribesandvibes) that there is a #WorldFolktalesandFablesWeek, which is every third week of March! I can't believe I nearly missed it (it ends this Sunday, March 27), but hey, every day is #WorldFolkloreDay for me! There are so many books that I would love to pay homage to, books that have influenced my love for all things culture. Of course, bonus points if it's a story/stories based on tricksters. #Folklore is significant for so many reasons, not just to understand your own culture but also to understand other cultures that seem so different from our own. We all have commonalities and differences that make us so beautiful. It is more than stories (history, anthropology, sociology, and many subdivisions), but stories will help us unite, heal, grow, and share: together. Here is my homage, a throwback of sorts, to one of my favorite books from childhood and a picture taken at my work-home: "#AStoryAStory " (1970), written and illustrated by #GailEHaley (winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1971), is the retelling of the African tale of how the trickster #Anansi obtained stories from the Sky God to give to the children of the earth. Fun fact: Haley spent a year in the Caribbean researching the African roots of many West Indie-Caribbean tales for the book (and, most likely, for her other works). https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2jYRohoJw/?igshid=1g3zggsehkwst

#thankgoodnessforfriends / #iamthelibrarydragon #Repost @iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ Here are some #books that caught my eye at @scribesandvibes' shop - a mix of YA, children's, and nonfiction! Take a look at @scribesandvibes’s IG and keep an eye out for incredible events and workshops, including sponsoring a book club! * Titles 📚 "#GenesisBegins Again" by Alicia D. Williams "#TheVotingBooth: Make It Count" by Brandy Colbert "#JustLikeMe" by Vanessa Brantley-Newton "#WeWanttoDoMoreThanSurvive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom" by Bettina L. Love "#ShakingThingsUp: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World" by Susan Hood "#DeathofInnocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America" by Chris Benson and Mamie Till "Angela Davis: #SeizetheTime" edited by Donna Gustafson, Gerry Beegan "#HowtoFailatFlirting" by Denise Williams "#AfricanHolisticHealth" by Llaila Afrika "#Chokehold: #PolicingBlackMen" by Paul Butler ・・・ #vibewise: #SUPPORTYOURFRIENDS, #itcostsnothingtobekind. #THANKYOU Marilu! Your kindness was right on time. -Stevie #scribesandvibes • #shopscribesandvibes https://www.instagram.com/p/CKP8OamBLou/?igshid=1oidrjx4vad75

#bookscomeinallcolors / #iamthelibrarydragon #Repost @iamthelibrarydragon ・・・ #Sulwe (Author: @lupitanyongo, Illustrator: @vashtiharrison Publisher:  @simonandschuster, 2019) is one of my favorite recent #picturebooks for children. The story is a powerful and beautiful story about colorism and learning to love our skin tone.  I wish I had a book like this because I had profound issues with my skin color. Also, I had an unsettling belief I was an imposter for many years. To this day, I still have people making comments about my skin color, including from fellow Italians, Americans, and Jamaicans. This book will teach kids the beauty of their skin color and how we all are beautiful. We all belong. I see you, I see you. * Thank you so much, @scribesandvibes, for this heart-touching book. -#Marilu [ig: @iamthelibrarydragon], #mythic #bookstagrammer formally known as #iamthebookdragon 📚🐲 ・・・ #vibewise: #weallneeddifferentbookstolove! can you imagine the #mavericks and the outsiders before the #bookstagram vibe? can you imagine the hell of being compelled to hug the pages of a book in lieu of being an outcast outside? turn the pages like a plot twist, now believe me when i tell you: #weneeddiversebooks is much more than inclusion and #picturebooklove. 📚😍 #mypoemsarenotpoems and i say that to say: growing up, we all needed a #librarydragon or two. if #readingopensyourmindtoworldsofwonder, is it safe to say a #agoodbook goes such a long way? what would you do if i told you #istillbelievein398point2 and the world is beginning to fall in love with #bookcharacters that look and sound just like YOU?! would you to begin to #lovetheskinyourein? would you commence the journey of #selfdiscovery, unpack the weight intersectionality, and demand a window seat with the babies? would you recommend #breakingtheglassceiling amid discourse of #windowandmirrorbooks among #bookishfriends? when i codify #adifferentkindofvibe - #unorthodoxtribe, do you rest your third-eye and peep the illustrious sect that made me? for those that surmise to decipher what i encipher, this one's for the marilus and those of you who will someday signal: #librariesraisedme. -#scribesandvibes https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlmI11hGpM/?igshid=edmwvhzautva