Banned Book Club: Banned Picture Books
Schedule
Tue May 07 2024 at 06:30 pm
Location
758 Main St, Branford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06405 | Branford, CT
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Join us for our next Blackstone Banned Book Club meeting! This group meets the first Tuesday of every month to have a non-judgemental, civil discussion of various titles that are being challenged and banned, both locally and nationally. The purpose of this book club is to simultaneously discuss these titles, and to bring awareness to the rapid rise of book challenges and bans. This month we’re reading This month we're reading three picture books: Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe, Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh, and And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, with a special guest appearance by author Duncan Tonatiuh! You can read the full synopsis below:
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
When her family moved to the town of Westminster, California,
young Sylvia Mendez was excited about enrolling in her neighborhood school. But she and her brothers were turned away and told they had to attend the Mexican school instead. Sylvia could not understand why—she was an American citizen who spoke perfect English. Why were the children of Mexican families forced to attend a separate school?
Unable to get a satisfactory answer from the school board, the Mendez family decided to take matters into its own hands and organized a lawsuit. In the end, the Mendez family’s efforts helped bring an end to segregated schooling in California in 1947, seven years before the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation in schools across America.
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo get the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own.
Registration is required to attend this IN PERSON event. Click here to register:
https://events.blackstonelibrary.org/event/banned-book-club-6
The Blackstone Library has a limited number of copies of these
titles available for book club participants. If you are interested in
obtaining a library copy, please call us at (203) 488-1441 ext. 318 or
email [email protected]. Copies are first come, first
served.
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Where is it happening?
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