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“It's about the continuation of the celebration of Christmas, and holding onto something you were hoping would happen in the New Year,” said Celina Miranda, executive director of Hyde Square Task Force.

If you want inspiration for the new year, the nonfiction section has a self-care title that promises a meditative reading and a graphic novel about the Latinx leaders who changed the history of the U.S.

From the November/December 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Nicanor Gordon (Caribbean National Weekly) highlights five Caribbean-centric children’s books: My Mother Was a Nanny (Laura James), Good Night My Sweet Island (Petrea Seaman Honychurch), La Noche Before Three Kings Day (Sheila Colón-Bagley), Dreams of Green: A Three Kings’ Day Story (Mariel Jungkunz),…

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