015 Stories of Color & Common Goals in Our Love of Books

Our Guest: Nicole Cottrell

• Stories of Color: a curated source for diverse, multicultural living books

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Featured books in this episode:

• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by CS Lewis

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants- this young adult version has become available since our conversation, written for ages 12+

• The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

• The First Blade of Sweetgrass by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey

• Books As Windows by May Lamberton Becker

• Give and Take by Elly Swartz

• Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont

• Tristan Strong Novels by Kwame Mbalia

If you enjoy the Stories of Color site, be sure to check out the Reshelving Alexandria Catalogue as well!

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