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Happy book birthday to the US edition of Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola 🥳 Shout out to Hear Our Voices Book Tours and William Morrow for giving me the opportunity to "dream cast" this amazing book! Love in Colour is a collection of love stories from ancient cultures around the world that have been reimagined by Ms Babalola. This is an adult romance, so not what I'd pick for myself, but I'm so glad I read this.For my dream cast I chose 3 of my favorite chapters and tried to remain true to their descriptions. Scheherazade reminded the most...

Y'all know I love collaborating with awesome organizations and I absolutely loved The Gilded Ones, so this pairing makes total sense. In celebration of World Book Day on April 23, 2021 we are teaming up with Black Girls Create in order to host a giveaway of the phenomenal debut YA novel by Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones! World Book Day aims to change lives through a love of books and this year's theme is "share a story". By sharing The Gilded Ones with you, we are sharing a gut-wrenching and fantastical story of survival and self-discovery. Check out my interview...

 Book lovers this is for you! We’re joining forces with Sharing Health Education Awareness - SHEA to give one lucky winner a chance to win a free copy of “The Three Mothers” by Anna Malaika Tubbs!To enter:1. Tag a friend (mommy friends are the best!) in this post.2. Like WoW Book and Toy Store on Facebook.3. Like SHEA on Facebook.4. Comment “DONE” on the post when you’ve completed all three steps.This giveaway ends Thursday, April 15. The winner will be selected at random and be notified via DM. Good luck  Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's...

While we celebrate multicultural books every day around here, we love Multicultural Children's Book Day because it takes special care to highlight not only multicultural books, but the authors that write them. For its eighth year, we were so happy to be gifted with Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess by Deedee Cummings and illustrated by Charlene Mosley.         Deedee Cummings    Charlene Mosley   Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess combines a touching story with vivid watercolor illustrations to introduce us to Kayla, a young girl with big dreams. This is the first book in a five-part middle grade series that was actually inspired by...

Now that the holiday season has come to an end and we’ve set our New Year’s goals, we want to encourage you to add just one more thing to your list—schedule your flu shot. Anyone can get the flu, even those of us who are healthy, and the fact is serious problems related to the flu can happen at any age. Flu season doesn’t end until March, and as we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, fighting the flu has become even more important. Women who are pregnant or have given birth in the last two weeks AND children under the...