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Hey everyone! Guess what? Prayer Is is going to be a board book! 🙏🏾✨ This new version will be released on January 27, 2027, but if you preorder at Barnes & Noble today through Friday, September 11, you can get 25% off! @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #bnpreorder #kidlit
Upcoming event centering Minneapolis and youth literature to lift us all up in these trying times Read more and register @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @ellenoh.bsky.social @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social @kelstarly.bsky.social @margaritaengle.bsky.social pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2026/03/06/r...
Rising and Resisting in Minneapolis - Pearl's and Ruby's
The free, online event takes place on Monday 10 March at 11 am ET. Prior registration is required.
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Keira and Bianca are best friends at school. Outside of school, they are not allowed to play together. That Flag is written by the gorgeous @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and illustrated by the artivist @4nikkolas.bsky.social #BlackAuthorsMatter #BlackIllustratorsMatter #Healing #BlackHistory #BHM
Today is pub day for Prayer Is!! When my agent Alex originally sent me the manuscript, I was already excited because I enjoyed working with @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and the FSG BYR/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social team (Joy, Naomi, Mina and Hannah) on All the Greatness in You! #kidlitart
👇🏾👇🏼 #FlagDay
HarperStacks@harperstacks.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow is Flag Day—a great opportunity to use THAT FLAG by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, illus. by Nikkolas Smith, as a conversation starter about U.S. history, especially with Juneteenth & July 4th coming soon. Click here for an educator's guide and to learn more about the book! bit.ly/43Hl0Tn
If this is hard for someone to understand, I recommend @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social’s great book that succinctly explains this
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last yr.The Confederate flag is a symbol of white supremacy and support for slavery. Full stop.
Team GREATNESS is back with a new and timely book for our kids called PRAYER IS. It's written by me, beautifully illustrated by @alleannaharris.bsky.social, and lovingly published by @mackidsbooks.bsky.social. Available for pre-order. 💛🙏🏾💜
Alleanna Harris@alleannaharris.bsky.social · last yr.🗣️COVER REVEAL!!!✨ Say hello to Prayer Is, written by the amazing @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, illustrated by me, and published by FSG/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social! It comes out on January 13, 2026, but it’s available for preorder now. 💜 Here’s the official synopsis:
Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.
"I have fought and will continue to fight unceasingly for the rights and privileges of all people who are oppressed & who are denied their just share of [what] their labor produces. " #tdih 1952, Charlotta Bass accepts VP nomination for Progressive Party 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
March 30, 1952: Charlotta Bass Accepts U.S. VP Nomination
California newspaper owner and anti-Klan activist Charlotta Spears Bass became the first African American nominated to be a U.S. political party's vice-presidential candidate.
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Thank you @zinnedproject.bsky.social for recommending THAT FLAG as a book to teach truth to young readers during these troubling and regressive times.
Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · last yr.What to read with young children? The children's picture book, "That Flag," by Tameka Fryer Brown @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, illus. by Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social Helps readers recognize and critique the Lost Cause narrative. #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
What to watch this weekend? In light of the admin's EO to erase the truth about U.S. history in museums, historic sites, monuments, & the zoo -- we recommend "The Neutral Ground" by C. J. Hunt on the fight over Confederate monuments & the Lost Cause narrative. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
The Neutral Ground
Film. Directed by C. J. Hunt. 2021. 82 minutes. A co-production of POV and ITVS, in association with the Center for Asian American Media. A student-friendly documentary on the fight over Confederate m...
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As reading lists circulate for adults about times we are in, here are some suggestions for early childhood/early elementary. Starting with "That Flag" by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social -- picture book introduces the Lost Cause narrative in history and today. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
That Flag
Picture Book. By Tameka Fryer Brown. Illustrated by Nikkolas Smith. 2023. 40 pages. Learn about the history of the Confederate flag, the myths and the reality, through the story of two young girls.
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Thank you, @zinnedproject.bsky.social, for the book recommendation! 🙏🏾💙
Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2y agoWe highly recommend the children's picture book, "That Flag," by Tameka Fryer Brown @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social The book helps young people recognize and critique the Lost Cause narrative. #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
March is Women's History Month! Here are 14 books about phenomenal women young readers should know about. Share their stories this month and all year long! #WomensHistoryMonth #kidlit #womenshistory #HERstory #Blackwomen ##Blackhistory365
My #GREATNESS sis out here planting seeds of self-love and confidence in our kids! Go @alleannaharris.bsky.social !! 💜💛💜💛
Alleanna Harris@alleannaharris.bsky.social · 2y agoI just wanted to say thank you to the Omicron Omicron Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta and Evergreen Avenue Elementary School for having me at the @ncte.org African-American Read-In! 💙🤍
Hey Charlotte! Please join us for a Freedom to Read panel discussion this Thursday, sponsored by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Our fight to maintain intellectual freedom grows more urgent by the day. Hope to see you there. Register here: tinyurl.com/yrvhfxkp #freedbetweenthelines #freadom
"Grimes’ simple, lyrical text depicts a sweet, relationship-based mini-adventure with a victory both adults and children will appreciate. [Cathy Ann] Johnson’s whimsical illustrations... are as poetic as Grimes’ verse. Playful, soothing, and beautiful. (Picture book. 3-8)" Thanks, Kirkus!
I heard today is National #Shelfie Day. For no particular reason at all, my shelfie includes a copy of Little People, Big Dreams' Anne Frank & That Flag by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social. Also for no particular reason at all, my t-shirt reads "E Pluribus Unum, #ProtectTransKids."
Only 4 more days to bid and support LA residents impacted by wildfires...
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Look at all the great things you can bid on! I'm doing an AMA. And ngl I'm a delight to chat with about publishing stuff!
Jocelyn Rish@jocelynrish.com · 2y agoI teamed up with author friends Charlotte Offsay, Tara Cattie Luebbe, and Caroline Perry to organize @kidlitforla.bsky.social, an auction to raise money for wildfire relief efforts. The #kidlit community has donated AH-MAZE-ING items. Go bid now!!! www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
I am offering 2 Signed Copies of my books--WINNER'S CHOICE--to help raise money for those impacted by the wildfires in California. Kidlit for Los Angeles Auction Info: DATES: Monday, January 20th, at 9am PST until Friday, January 26th, at 9pm PST. @kidlitforla.bsky.social #lawildfires
Join me on February 1st for MY VOICE, MY STORY, a community event designed to empower youth through self-expression, sponsored by Bookmarks and the Winston Salem Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. See you soon, Winston-Salem! #myvoice #mystory #AllTheGreatnessInYou #begreat #believeinyou
👍📚How will they learn? By picture books. This is a wonderful, relatively gentle way to learn, through the experience of two best friends, about the lasting harm and division caused by the Confederate flag. Written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social, beautifully illustrated by @4nikkolas.bsky.social
Just a quick flipthrough of All the Greatness in You, written by @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social and illustrated by me! Now available wherever books are sold. 💜✨ #BlackSky
I meet and talk the most talented writers each month! Just finished recording SCBWI-Carolinas Book Fairies First Look interview with @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social Her creativity with words is as vibrant as Alleanna Harris’ illustrations in her newest picture book! Interview link coming soon!
