Doreen Rappaport

Jan 8, 2025 | national.macaronikid.com | Doreen Rappaport |Bryan Collier |Cynthia Levinson

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 20 Are you looking to share the importance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement with your kids? We've put together a list of 5 books handpicked by the National Civil Rights Museum in Nashville that are inspiring and a great way to introduce kids to the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. These stories are all about courage and hope.

Mar 4, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Sharon Elswit |Debbie Levy |Elizabeth Baddeley |Doreen Rappaport

Writ­ing in the per­spec­tive of for­mer Supreme Court Jus­tice Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg as she looks back on the arc of her life, Brad Meltzer makes a remark­ably strong case that Gins­burg was a trail­blaz­er for equal­i­ty, some­one who thought about how she want­ed the world to be for her chil­dren and her­self. Begin­ning in the 1930s, Gins­burg assert­ed her dis­com­fort about the lim­it­ed expec­ta­tions for girls.

Sep 19, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Doreen Rappaport |Kate Messner |Christopher Neal |Chris Paul

From the Big Words series , Vol. 12 A book sure to fly off shelves and into children’s hands. Astronaut Ellen Ochoa reaches for the stars. Though young Ellen is transfixed by images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, options for women were limited. Differences between her parents (her father, the son of Mexican immigrants, wouldn’t speak Spanish at home; her mother hired a neighbor to teach the children Spanish) hint at their eventual divorce.