Picture books to look for
Netgalley has some great new picture books that I've had an opportunity to preview. Some of these are going to be great in my school library. One of the big themes of library collection development is diversity-it turns out not all kids are white and middle class (I KNOW!!! I was surprised too! Oh, wait, maybe not so much. My school doesn't look like that!) It turns out that kids like to read about people who look like them and so since our populations are diverse, our collections better be too! This first one fits that bill perfectly. It's called "Joseph's Big Ride" by Terry Farish and illustrated by Ken Daley. It's about Joseph who has been growing up in a refugee camp in Sudan. He idolizes one of the bigger boys who has a bike and dreams of a day when he will be able to ride. He does learn to fix bikes and hen he and his mom move to America, he finds many new things but one his new neighbors has a bike! He goes to sc...