Celebrating Black History Together

Can you identify this record breaker?

February is a fabulous month.  We are one month closer to Springtime. Valentine's Day is an opportunity to show other's how much we care. February is also Black History Month, which gives us a time to celebrate all those who worked hard for equality and freedom. 

The library  has tons of books available to use in your classrooms.  We have Jerry Pinkney fiction and fairytales, Walter Dean Myers, Julius Lester, Nikki Giovanni , E.B. Lewis, Wade Hudson, Maya Angelou, the McKissick's, Virginia Hamilton, and Andrea Davis Pinkney, Whoopi Goldberg, Kadir Nelson and Julius Lester, just to name a few. 

We also have an excellent selection of biographies featuring African-American heroes like Langston Hughes, Wilma Rudolph, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Matthew Henson, Coretta Scott King, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington Carver.  Come in and browse around-many of these are on display! 

Here is an excellent video highlighting Jerry Pinkney's career as an artist and illustrator...Jerry Pinkney.
Here is a great site for Black History.

Black History is everyone's history.