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Reading Matters: Celebrating Books About Parents and Children

by Jean Dugan
January/February 2021
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Parents all over the worldof all religions, cultures and economic situationslived through the better part of 2020 with some degree of stress as they determine innovative ways of nurturing their families. Here are a few new books about parents and their children making the best of things in difficult times. 

Ava’s mother works six days a week, and
Saturdays are the only days that she and Ava can spend together. Saturdays for the pair are splendid and special and priceless. So when plans for one extra-special Saturday go completely awry, there is no time for disappointment, and redeeming their special day turns out to be even more fun than what they had planned. Oge Mora has created Ava’s world in an exuberant and colorful urban collage—a short, sweet story of triumph over small setbacks.
Saturdays by Oge Mora (Little Brown and Company, 2019) Ages 3 – 7.

Patricia McKissack (Sarah, Plain and Tall) was a caring and perceptive children’s author who unfortunately passed away in 2017. Her stories remain and What Is Given from the Heart is a good one. No ...

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