Once again, it’s May, and School Library Journal appears to be facing their annual conflict about Heritage Months. In May, Jewish and Asian Americans share the month. That is absolutely appropriate. Both groups are featured, as only one prominent example, on the New York Public Library’s website. April was both Poetry Month and Arab American … Continue reading Jewish American and Asian American Heritage Month
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Not Out of Left Field
Baseball’s Shining Season: America’s Pastime on the Brink of War – Martin W. Sandler and Craig SandlerBloomsbury Children’s Books, 2026 Given that baseball is America’s pastime, it is not surprising that the sport played at outsized role during World War II. Actually, one of the many facts I learned from this terrific book is that … Continue reading Not Out of Left Field