SCORE Maine named I’m Your Neighbor Books their Nonprofit of the Year. To keep everyone safe, our SCORE mentor Thomas Leonhardt presented the award to the board and staff at an October garden party. Watch for a full pantheon of our gratitude. See photos of the celebratory gathering.
With our favorite bookseller PRINT: A Bookstore, I’m Your Neighbor Books will be celebrating A Feast for Joseph. The picture book draws the reader into the food and music of the Acholi, a community living in Uganda, Sudan, and worldwide—including our own neighborhoods. Acholi in America: A Book Launch for A Feast for Joseph September… Read more »
Two Sandals No reader that has met Lina and Feroza on the pages of the picture book Four Feet, Two Sandals doubts that Afghan refugees should be resettled in America. Since 2007, students have been reading about how each girl finds a single sandal in a clothing distribution drop. Flip-flopping around the camp in just… Read more »
Dear Neighbors, This giveaway has closed… I’m Your Neighbor Books and Farrar Straus Giroux have given away a 100 free copies of the award-winning novel A Galaxy of Sea Stars to schools and libraries. Named Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year: 2021 If you feel like you could afford to purchase books for… Read more »
I’m Your Neighbor Books Executive Director Kirsten Cappy is honored to by keynoting the 2021 NHSLMA Library Camp on their themes of WELCOME | INCLUDE | REPRESENT. Participants, watch this post for resources. The Suitcase: Unpacking Children’s Books for Stronger Community Our collections and future acquisitions hold the tools for a more equitable school and… Read more »
I’m Your Neighbor Books will join Mayo Street Arts, The Remote Theater Project, Portland Ovations, and The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center in a parade to honor of The Walk. At the heart of The Walk is Little Amal a 10-foot tall puppet of a young refugee girl, created by the acclaimed Handspring Puppet Company…. Read more »
“Here is our journey that holds…the openness of a story.” —Story Boat Bob Shumway embodied “the power of stories and reading to transport,” his daughter Larissa said. His daughter Aldona remembers him on the beach in Maine engrossed in a book or making up fantastical stories for them. As children, Larissa, Aldona, and Larry Shumway… Read more »
Hate and discrimination thrive on false narratives, on “othering” our neighbors. I’m Your Neighbor Books strives to put new narratives into the hands of American educators, librarians, parents, readers, and citizens. In the last year Asian Americans reported 3,795+ incidents of hate to the organization Stop AAPI Hate —incidents were 2.3 times greater for women…. Read more »
Thank You Joe Thanks to a generous donation from The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein, 80 Maine school and public libraries won copies of the acclaimed picture book Together We Grow. The donation and the books were given in memory of Joe Bornstein whose commitment to literacy and equality is continued by his family. The… Read more »
AudioFile Magazine and I’m Your Neighbor Books hosted live readings and discussion of New Arrival and New American novels with audiobook narrators. Hear Anthony Rey Perez read from and discuss Adrianna Cuevas’ The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez. Explore the audio at Dreamscape. Hear Priya Ayyar read from and discuss Supriya Kelkar’s American as Paneer… Read more »