Alessandra Requena
@readwithriver
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Host on The Picture Bookstagang Podcast, we chat about picturebooks, interview authors, & illustrators. Plus #kidsbookstagram on IG @ReadWithRiver
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2020
Talking to @InclusiveTime & @IAmSueannHall now about their project to highlight family-friendly books that are about Black Canadians in history - more here: https://t.co/belWytI75k
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What is freedom and where does the quest for an unfettered life, free of accountability to society, just become privilege? Let's explore the concept of freedom with picturebooks!
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What is Freedom? What’s the difference between ‘freedom’ & Privilege’? Lately I have been asking myself “What is freedom?” an awful lot. So I started looking…
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This is what keeps me up at night. What makes a picturebook universal? And what makes it quintessentially Canadian, British, or Australian?
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Why do some picturebooks only become classics in one country? Is it just marketing, or something more? Becoming a picturebook reviewer in an age of social media has demonstrated to me one thing. Al…
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Potentially controversial opinion. I only want to eat cakes that look like cakes.
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Hugging in picturebooks is a common theme and one that's evolved quite a long way in less than a decade!
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Ideas around children and hugging have come a long way in the last ten years, let’s take a look at “Don’t Hug Doug (He Doesn’t Like It) 2021, vs. “Hug Machine” 2…
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"Every piece of plastic you used in your life still exists. "Well, at least there's one thing in our lives that will never change.
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Nothing like going to comment on a meme only to be confronted by the harsh reality I've never had an original thought in your life...
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With mere hours left, 2021 couldn't leave bad enough alone and has taken Betty White less than three weeks before her 100th birthday.
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I miss sitcoms. In the olden days a show could go ten seasons and still be funny. Nowadays you get three seasons in tops and they're inevitably forced to save the world from an apocalypse. I didn't come here for this, I thought this was a show about baking.
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WHERE IS EVERYONE? by Tom Schamp is one of #bookstagang 's #bestbooksof2021! "Tom Schamp is a wild and unpredictable genius whose work depicts a world full of mystery, connection and surprise." @readwithriver
https://t.co/J10BQtvpuj
#kidlit #boardbook
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BINDUS BINDI by Supriya Kelkar and Parvati Pillai is a touching intergenerational story that affirms and embraces the beauty of Indian tradition and style. @SterlingBooks
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JAGUAR AND BUTTERFLIES by Catherine Russler and @elyelyilustra revels in the glory of Mexican beauty and tradition
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MAGIC LIKE THAT by Samara Cole and Geneva Bowers embraces the beauty and the strength of a Black girl's natural hair. @LEEandLOW
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EYES THAT KISS IN THE CORNERS by @JoannaHoWrites and Dung Ho from @HarperChildrens is a stunnimg and affirming love letter to Asian girls everywhere.
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One of the most wonderful trends to emerge this year are picturebooks that challenge white beauty standards.
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What is beauty? Last night we were recording the podcast episode for this year's #bookstagang_bestof2021 And as we were surveying the piles of books that had been submitted this year, about 400, trends began to emerge.
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