#boricuastories

[thebookdragon217]

Happy Friday! I am super excited about today's #GuideFriday and #ReadPuertoRican book list. I love to promote boricua works but it brings me extra joy to be able to so to a younger audience. QOTD: What is a favorite children's book that is close to your heart? When I say "representation matters" I'm not just using buzzwords. It is vital for identity formation and boosting self esteem that children be exposed to stories with characters where they can see themselves depicted accurately. Inclusive stories are also important for broadening horizons and building empathy and perspective for others who may be different. I love that children's books allow for building imagination about a multitude of topics and spark great questions and conversations with others. If you have Littles in your life, take some time to peruse your shelves and make sure their library reflects not only themselves but the greater world around them. The greatest gift my mom and aunt ever gave me were books that kept me tied to my Puerto Rican roots. #GuideFriday #Fridaypost #booklist #ReadPuertoRican #boricua #bookstgrampr #BoricuaBooks #bookfeature #boricuaAuthors #bookish #bookstagram #diversereads #childrensliterature #reading #picturebooks #ownvoices #PuertoRico #boricuastories #bookdragon #bookworm #boricuabookstagram #books #booklover #diversereads #representationmatters #bookguide #childrenread #weneeddiversebooks #ReadCaribbean (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTp4qcQrIze/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thebookdragon217]

It's time for the latest edition of #GuideFriday and #ReadPuertoRican. This week I am highlighting memoirs. Some of these I hold close to my heart. QOTD: What memoirs have you really enjoyed recently? Here are some of my favorite quotes from some of today's featured recommendations: 🔖"And years later, this would be exactly how I understood love: thrilling and terrifying, tears and laughter and then tears again. Love, I learned, could destroy you "- Jaquira Diaz,, Ordinary Girls 🔖"The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind." - Paris Thomas, Down These Mean Streets 🔖"It seemed too complicated, as if each of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not."- Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican 🔖"The aroma of coffee perking in the kitchen, the mesmerizing creaks and groans of the rockers, and the women telling their lives in cuentos are forever woven into the fabric of my imagination, braided like my hair that day I felt my grandmother's hands teaching me about strength, her voice convincing me of the power of storytelling"- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing #GuideFriday #ReadLatinx #ReadPuertoRican #Boricua #LatinxBookstagram #booklist #Fridaypost #BookRecs #PuertoRicanLit #memoirs #ownvoices #Fridaypost #LatinxBooks #BookFeatures #PuertoRicanAuthors #reading #nonfiction #booksbooksbooks #bookish #bookstoread #PuertoRico #bookstagram #bibliophile #nuyoricans #BoricuaStories #bookdragon #weneeddiversebooks #dignidadliteraria #bookworm #diversereader #bookcollector (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdatRsLDwr/?igshid=1g5a8dx1whllg