Just Like Me Reading
Hello There Everyone! Wanted to share a few poems from my new book, Just Like Me. Often children feel like they are so different and that nobody understands them. We as adults even focus on what makes us different which is not a bad thing at all, but often what makes us different can also make us the same. Just Like Me is my first book of poetry that I get to share with children and while girls are the focus here it is not just for girls, but for all children. Take a listen a
Growing In Tough Times
Hello Good Peoples! Covid-19, Covid-19 COVID-19!!!! UGH!!!!! that is all we are hearing about and it's all that our children are hearing as well. It's all over the place and it's causing so much stress and anxiety and depression even in our children. We use to turn on the news and horrible diseases seems to be something third world, but now it's affecting and kill Americans and more African American then anyone. I have lost one family member to it, but I have had a few that
It's Children's Book Week Get a Bookmark!
Hey Good People! It's Children's Book Week 2020 May4-10. Looking for things for the kids to do well run on over the the https://everychildareader.net/cbw/bookmarks-2020/ and get your downloadable bookmarks. They are simply fun and gorgeous! Some wonderful illustrators have created a whole bunch of awesome bookmarks with lots of activities on them for you kids to do! I even did one. Please download as many as you want and have fun!
Read Together Be Together
Hello Good Peoples! Hope that you all are safe and doing the best you can right now. Listen I know you all are mostly home and need things to do to keep you families lifted and encouraged. Well, Random House Penguin Books along with Knopf Books is having me read on my Instagram page today at 3PM EST time today. I will sharing Just Like Me! I love sharing with you and your children and I will be there today on my Instagram page Vanessabrantleynewton. Please join me if you can!
