In the spring of 2022, the Nativity Peace Library was established by the Social Justice Team to provide a collection of children’s books that share Nativity’s core values of welcome and inclusion and that celebrate diversity among God’s people. Children can enjoy the books while relaxing in bean bags at the back of the church or they can check them out to take home.
We are in conversation with other Episcopal parishes about how we might share this ministry in order to reach more children.
If you would like to get involved by maintaining our current collection of books, writing book reviews, or even brainstorming ideas on the Peace Library, please Email Beth Crow.
Each month there will be a review of one of these books including discussion questions and possible activities. A listing of our complete catalog can be found on Nativity Peace Library’s TinyCat page.
When you are on the LibraryCat page for Nativity’s Peace Library, if you click on any of the book covers scrolling across the bottom of the page, you can read book reviews from Goodreads or Amazon.
Latest Peace Library Book Reviews
- One Big Heart (Peace Library Review)
One Big Heart, A Celebration of Being More Alike, than Different by Linsey Davis, with Beverly Davis; illustrated by Lucy Flemingreview by Carol Smith With schools opening across the country within the month, One… Read more: One Big Heart (Peace Library Review) - A Day for Rememberin’ (Peace Library Review)A Day for Rememberin’by Leah Hendersonreview by Lillis Ward A Day for Rememberin’ tells the story of the first Memorial Day celebration from the perspective of a young African American boy whose family has… Read more: A Day for Rememberin’ (Peace Library Review)
- We Are Water Protectors (Peace Library Review)by Carole Lindstrom, author; and Michaela Goade, illustratorreview by Becky Showalter We Are Water Protectors, written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade, is a children’s book inspired by the Indigenous-led environmental protests… Read more: We Are Water Protectors (Peace Library Review)
Full List of Reviews
- A Day for Rememberin’ (Peace Library Review)
- Blue Sky White Stars (Peace Library Review)
- Chicken Sunday (Peace Library Review)
- Chrysanthemum (Peace Library Review)
- Freedom on the Menu (Peace Library Review)
- Freedom School, Yes! (Peace Library Review)
- Love Is Powerful (Peace Library Review)
- One Big Heart (Peace Library Review)
- Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free (Peace Library Review)
- Red: A Caryon’s Story (Peace Library Review)
- Sweet Justice (Peace Library Review)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Peace Library Review)
- We Are Water Protectors (Peace Library Review)