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2021 was the first “official” year for the Lightbulb Heart Lending Library. Pandemic meant very few in-person storytimes (and then only with single families), a few online gatherings with Rock Reachout (Burlington, ON) and other groups, and Iots of lending!

Favorites!

A complete list of 2021 acquisitions

While many titles were found used in thrift stores, yard sales, and tiny libraries, it certainly helped to be working for a bookshop for the first quarter of the year…a gigantic THANK YOU to Jaime Krakowski at Epic Books in Hamilton, ON for the generous staff discount! 🙂

I am also so very thankful to my generous donors! In addition to physical donations, $88 was re-donated to the Conscious Kid Anti-Racist Children’s Book Fund.

Board Books

• Egg Board Book, Kevin Henkes          
• La Catrina: Emotions – Emociones, Patty Rodríguez
• The Story of Hanukkah, David A. Adler         
• Together, Mona Damluji*

Picture Books

• A Different Pond, Bao Phi*    
• A Map into the World, Kao Kalia Yang          
• A Stone for Sascha, Aaron Becker     
• Aaron Slater, Illustrator, Andrea Beaty*                                            –          
• All Because You Matter, Tami Charles          
• Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon, Kat Zhang*     
• Another, Christian Robinson 
• Bright Star, Yuyi Morales
• Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus   
• Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem, Amanda Gorman         
• Cicada, Shaun Tan*   
• Dear Treefrog, Joyce Sidman 
• Divorce Is the Worst, Anastasia Higginbotham         
• Dog Loves Drawing, Louise Yates   
• Fairy Tales and Fables, Gyo Fujikawa
• Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls, Anita Ganeri    
• Franklin’s Flying Bookshop, Jen Campbell     
• Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas, Natasha Yim*
• Grandad’s Camper, Harry Woodgate
• Hand Over Hand, Alma Fullerton*    
• Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States, Warren Binford   
• Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales, Virginia Hamilton        
• How to Find a Fox, Nilah Magruder  
• Hush Hush, Forest, Mary Casanova   
• I Dream of Popo, Livia Blackburne    
• I Sang You Down from the Stars, Tasha Spillett-Sumner      
• I Want to Be, Thylias Moss  
• I’m Bored, Michael Ian Black
• Ida, Always, Caron Levis        
• It Fell from the Sky, Fan Brothers      
• Jayden’s Impossible Garden, Mélina Mangal
• Ladder to the Moon, Maya Soetoro-Ng        
• Lovable Lyle, Bernard Waber*          
• Lyle Finds His Mother, Bernard Waber*                   
• Lyle, Lyle, crocodile, Bernard Waber*           
• Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys, Jane Yolen      
• My Hair is Magic!, M. L. Marroquin  
• My Two Border Towns, David Bowles           
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, Anastasia Higginbotham   
• Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore, Jane Yolen 
• Ohana Means Family, Ilima Loomis* 
• Old Turtle, Douglas Wood*   
• Oscar Otter, Nathaniel Benchley
• Our Favorite Day, Joowon Oh*         
• Over and Under the Canyon, Kate Messner  
• Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma, Joanna Ho        
• Rhoda’s Rock Hunt, Molly Beth Griffin          
• Running The Road To ABC, Denizé Lauture   
• School’s First Day of School, Adam Rex         
• Something Happened in Our Town (A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice), Marianne Celano       
• Sootface, Robert D. San Souci
• Spring Stinks: A Little Bruce Book, Ryan T. Higgins   
• Ten Beautiful Things, Molly Griffin    
• Ten ways to hear snow, Cathy Camper                                             
• Téo’s Tutu, Maryann Jacob Macias   
• The ABCs of Black History, Rio Cortez
• The Bare Naked Book, Kathy Stinson
• The Eight Knights of Hanukkah, Leslie Kimmelman  
• The Fog, Kyo Maclear*                                              
• The Heart and the Bottle, Oliver Jeffers        
• The Huge Bag of Worries, Virginia Ironside  
• The Most Beautiful Thing, Kao Kalia Yang*         
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read, Rita Lorraine Hubbard   
• The Rough Patch, Brian Lies  
• The Rough-Face Girl, Rafe Martin     
• The Serpent Slayer: and Other Stories of Strong Women, Katrin Tchana    
• The Wind and the Trees, Todd Stewart         
• Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow, Aimée Craft
• Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!, Jody Nyasha Warner     
• Waiting for the Biblioburro, Monica Brown*                                                
• Watercress, Andrea Wang*  
• What Happened to You?, James Catchpole  
• What Will You Be?, Yamile Saied Méndez
• Where Are You From?, Yamile Saied Méndez          
• Where Happiness Begins, Eva Eland 
• William’s Doll, Charlotte Zolotow      
• Wishes, Muon Thi Van*         
• Your Name Is a Song, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow   
• Zonia’s Rain Forest, Juana Martinez-Neal     

Chapter Books/Middle Grade/YA

• A Boy Called Bat, Elana K. Arnold      
• Bat and the End of Everything, Elana K. Arnold        
• Bat and the Waiting Game, Elana K. Arnold  
• Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights, Rich Wallace
• Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson 
• Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities, Cylita Guy, PhD*
• Song for a Whale, Lynne Kelly *
• Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, Monique Gray Smith
• The Beatryce Prophecy, Kate DiCamillo        

* = gifted to the library

Much love to everyone who has supported Lightbulb Heart in 2021 – here’s to staying safe and getting back to in-person storytimes when it’s once again wise to do so! If you’re in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area, the Lending Library is here for you!