When I was a child, one of my favorite things about summer was the summer reading club. If I read a certain number of books I’d get tickets to an Atlanta braves game. This was back in the day when it was much easier for the club to give away tickets to kids – long before we became world champions. I say that to say this – if there is something your kids are doing this summer – in addition to sports, time at the pool and play dates with friends, they should be reading, and now is a great time for kids to read books with characters who look and live like we all do. Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, is one of the authors of the young readers book, The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction And The Long Path To Justice and Tracy Baptiste who tackles the origins of black icons with her book African Icons: Ten People who Shaped History.
