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I’m Awesome, Just the Way I Am

Saturday, May 31 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Berkeley Public Library - Children's Nonfiction Area

  • Asian American Voices
  • Family Day
  • Latinx voices
  • Picture Books
  • Queer Voices
  • Read Aloud

Gabriela Orozco Belt, Meredith Steiner, Mượn Thị Văn

No matter who you are, where you’re from, and how you communicate, you are awesome! If you don’t believe us, turn to these wonderful picture books that feel like a big, warm hug. Just. Like. You. by Meredith Steiner is a rhyming story about the qualities that make different kids unique in a joyful celebration of diversity and individuality, while Gabriela Orozco Belt centers the Hispanic American bicultural experience in I Am, Yo Soy, a bilingual English and Spanish story honoring the big and small ways that embracing our heritage can be the key to being exactly who we’re meant to be. For some important people in your life, You Make the World, just like the father in Mượn Thị Văn’s fantastical story, who describes his son’s contagious energy and range of strong emotions as having the same intensity and beauty as the natural world. This heartwarming read aloud will be emceed by Sophie and Harlem Juliette of Cinnamongirl Inc., who certainly knows a thing or two about being awesome!

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Book signing information: Medicine for Nightmares, at the venue by the stage

MC:

Cinnamongirl Sophie
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