Books to Help Your Kids Navigate The Election Year For many of us, our instinct as parents is to protect and shelter our kids from the hard stuff – the adult stuff we don’t think they need to worry about. As the election year continues to ramp up, our kids are going to start having …
This month we honor and celebrate Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and Native Hawaiians! This month (and every month), we encourage everyone celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and expand their understandings of the many AAPI communities that are essential to the United States, in the past, present, and future. Poudre Libraries encourages our …
This April is the 20th annual National Diversity Awareness Month. We want to celebrate by acknowledging and appreciating our differences and similarities, and diversifying our reading! But what does “diversity” even mean? Diversity, at first glance, is a simple enough term to define. It means a group is heterogeneous or different characteristically. The parts that …
Colorado Black History & Book Choices It’s Black History Month! This month, we celebrate black futures and honor the unique contributions of Black individuals who shaped Colorado and the nation. Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. (1919–2004) Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1847–1919) Rachel B. Noel (1918–2008) Five Points Neighborhood Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (1884–1989) Fannie Mae Duncan (1918-2005) Find …
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By Wendy Pillard, Bilingual Library Assistant Learn more about Disability Pride Month, a month celebrating the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with some hand-picked choices! We hope you enjoy our picks. Adult Fiction Teen Non-Fiction Children’s Non-Fiction Children’s Fiction