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Antiracist Baby
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves. Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for readers of all ages dedicated to forming a just society.
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coffees
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I'm really curious about the age group this is for. I feel like this reads better for older kids or for younger kids who have an adult who can read this with. That is not always the case and just thinking on my own experience, language is often a barrier. Still, I really enjoyed this and really think this should be something all adults share with their kids, great messages and techniques

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Leftcoastzen
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TheBookHippie 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2y
readordierachel He's just the worst 2y
Leftcoastzen @readordierachel there‘s lots of competition out there , I agree! 2y
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LibrarianRyan
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4 🌟 This is a great non-fiction book for parents and babies. I actually think of it as more a self-help book for adults than really for babies. The information in it is great, I just wish the author did try so hard to rhyme. It threw my off as a reader. On some pages it worked great, and on others I felt it messed with the flow and the message.

mandarchy I haven't read it yet and didn't know it would be a rhyming book. Kids love that, but I'm so over it. It's really annoying when you can see where they had to stretch. 2y
RosePressedPages Honestly, the way the book was written with some of the vocabulary seemed like it would go over most kids heads. But it had great content. 2y
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GingerAntics
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Pickpick

This is a great book for kids, but also for adults. It explains antiracism to small children in terms that make sense to them. It also gives some great information for parents and caregivers about how to raise children to be antiracist.
#AntiracistBaby #IbramXKendi #audiobook

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alisiakae
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi
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Mehso-so

Be prepared for an onslaught of reviews of all the picture books nominated for the GR Choice Awards!

But this is a review I don‘t want to write, because I 💜 Ibram X. Kendi. With this being a board book, I thought the target audience was babies & toddlers, but it feels like it is written more for their parents. The rhyming is awkward, but I did really like the 9 steps to make equity a reality. It‘s not easy distilling the complexity ⬇️⬇️

alisiakae of anti-racist work and systemic racial injustices into a children‘s book, and I hope this is only one of many to come! 3y
megnews I‘m right there with you. As an alternative, I recommend the much simpler, age appropriate 3y
alisiakae While this is not solely an anti-racism picture book, I do love and recommend this A-Z picture book (edited) 3y
alisiakae @megnews I‘ve heard of that one but haven‘t read it yet. I did also just recommend another picture book in the comments, although it is more broad and does not focus solely on anti-racism. 3y
megnews Yes my granddaughter has that one and we like it a lot. 3y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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#bookhaul! When I went to pick up the books for #basicwitchswap, some of my past orders for myself had come in, too.

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ErinC
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi
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This is an excellent board book for parents and librarians to read to the youngest of children to begin a foundation of antiracism and diversity. The book advocates 9 steps to “make equity a reality,” and counting each one would be great practice for toddlers. Some vocabulary may need further explaining for curious youngsters, but rhyming steps make fun-reading and bright, bold illustrations of families of color will hold young ones‘ interests!

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cwarnier
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi
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#BBRC #atoz #A
Not my favorite. It really made me feel like I was a racist.

megnews Hi. Are you willing to talk about it? I read it a couple weeks ago and can‘t remember anything that made me feel that way. Was there something particular? 4y
cwarnier I feel like because I work hard and am proud of the life I live and what I have gained from it, and people look at me like it was just handed to me because I am white.
4y
megnews @cwarnier hi again. I think it‘s good to work hard and be proud of the life you built. It sounds like the concept of white privilege bothers you? It doesn‘t mean people think things were handed to you just that some people start more ahead of the game and some farther behind depending on life circumstances. If you prefer not to discuss it, I respect that. I think it‘s important to have these conversations so I thought I‘d reach out. 4y
alisiakae I just read this book, since it was a GR choice award nominee. If you would like to discuss it, I‘m here to talk. Have you read any other books on anti-racism? Learning about white privilege and the ways that policies in our country have furthered racism and inequities is meant to be uncomfortable. It‘a not knocking your hard work, I‘m sorry you take it that way. I do recommend this one too 3y
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MidnightBookGirl
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A really cute board book that deals with a very big and important topic. The perfect gift for any new baby and their parents!

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TheBookHippie
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#SUMMERFUN

I‘m getting there !!!

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megnews
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Mehso-so

For me, at least 55% of a picture book is the illustrations. This one fell short for my taste. While I think this is an incredibly important topic to introduce early on, I think much of this would be over a picture book reader‘s head. All in all, this was a so-so for me.

First #BBRC 20/21 book #A2Z
#BlackLivesMatter
Book 121 7.2.20

LibrarianRyan Oh no. I was looking forward to this one. 4y
megnews @LibrarianRyan to each his own. You may love it. And the great thing about picture books is you won‘t lose too much time if you don‘t. 😀 4y
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Bookish_Gal
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi
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This is such a nice baby book about being kind to everyone around you. It‘s simple, colorful, and gets the point across in a major way. This is something that every family can use to talk about race and loving everyone the same. #blacklivesmatter #blackauthor

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Christine
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Attending an excellent webinar with the brilliant-as-usual Ibram X. Kendi. Also admiring Boston Globe journalist Bina Venkataraman‘s bookshelves. (I would be inspecting Kendi‘s shelves with even greater interest, but he only has the tagged book in his background this time :) I could spend MANY hours studying the screenshots of people‘s shelves I‘ve taken during pandemic Zoom meetings, news reports, social media videos, etc.! 🧐😆

MicheleinPhilly Oh my gosh - even on work calls someone will say, “Michele, what‘s the book on the 3rd shelf, 2nd from the right?” 😂 4y
Christine @MicheleinPhilly 😂 I love your coworkers!! 4y
MicheleinPhilly Well they are all librarians so it comes with the territory. ☺️ On our first Zoom eleventy billion days ago, 2 of them used “virtual” library backgrounds and I was like, “Um, no this is a real room in my house. This is where I work.” 4y
Christine @MicheleinPhilly LOL! Room Rating: 10/10 4y
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LibrarianRyan
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