![]() ![]() ![]() (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.) Garoche’s drawings are impressively detailed, from the nest’s many small bits to the developing first feathers on the chicks and the wall smudges and exposed wiring of the renovation. The text suggests the strong bond built by this Afro-Latinx father and daughter with their ongoing project without needing to point it out explicitly, a light touch in a picture book full of delicate, well-drawn moments and precise wording. Rosen uses lively language and well-chosen details to move the story of the baby birds forward. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small.” Renata finds at a crucial moment that she can help the chicks learn to fly, even with the bittersweet knowledge that it will only hasten their exits from her life. Rather than seeing it as an unfortunate delay of their project, Renata and Papi decide to let the avian carpenters continue their work. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. The perfect text for both budding activists and children interested in what Vice President Harris was like as a child.Ī home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. The clear and readable storyline deftly balances optimism with the challenges of community organizing. ![]() In this sunnily illustrated picture book, author Harris-Vice President Harris’ niece and Maya Harris’ daughter-imagines the details of a true story her mother told her growing up. By the end of the book, through ingenuity, perseverance, and cooperation, Maya and Kamala don’t just have their playground: They also have the confidence they need to become lifelong public servants. Green says that maybe he could get materials for a sandbox-and, as far as Kamala and Maya are concerned, maybes can become yeses. At first, most of the adults are too busy or too distracted to help them, and all they hear is no. After getting permission to build the playground themselves, Kamala, Maya, and the other kids in their building get organized. When they deliver their letter, the landlord immediately says no-but Kamala and Maya won’t take that for an answer. One morning, Kamala and her sister, Maya, look out the window of their apartment and realize that their building is missing something essential: a playground! Following their mother’s advice, Kamala writes (and Maya illustrates) a letter to the landlord asking for one in their building’s courtyard. The Times piece followed another one by the Washington Post published on Thursday that described Harris’ campaign as “teetering,” claiming her candidacy was “weighed down by indecision within her campaign, her limits as a candidate and dwindling funds that have forced her to retreat in some places at a moment she expected to be surging.” The Post’s Chelsea Janes writes that part of the problem with Harris is that she has “often displayed a desire to be everything to everyone that has instead left voters with questions about who she is, what she believes and what her priorities and convictions would be as president.Before she was the first biracial, Black and South Asian female vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris was a little girl with big dreams. He needs to take responsibility - that’s where the buck stops.” Harris declined to be interviewed for the piece. “I have told her there needs to be a change,” Fudge said. But at the same time, she acknowledged Harris herself was to blame for at least some of the problems within the campaign. ![]() Marcia Fudge, who endorsed Harris, says she must fire Rodriguez. It seems many people close to the senator have been upfront with her that she needs to shake things up. ![]()
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