Storytime – Earth Day Part 2

--- Published on April 25th 2021 ---
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Today’s stories were :

  • The Brilliant Deep : Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs, by Kate Messner, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe
  • The Boy Who Grew A Forest : The True Story of Jadav Payeng, by Sophia Gholz, illustrated by Kayla Harren
  • A Little Spot of Kindness, written and illustrated by Diane Alber
  • “Grasshoppers” and “Water Striders” from Joyful Noise : Poems for Two Voices by Sid Fleischman

The Brilliant Deep won the Green Earth Book Award in 2019. The Boy Who Grew a Forest was a Green Earth Book Award honor book in 2020.

A Little Spot of Kindness is part of Diane Alber’s series of books centered around social emotional wellbeing. For more on her and her books, visit her website.

Joyful Noise won a Newbery Medal in the year following its publication. The book is available in physical, ebook, and audiobook formats at the Sacramento Public Library.