A read aloud of Daisy Helps With the Dress, a picture book about a little girl's attempts to "help" with preparations for a wedding celebration in her family of reusers, recyclers, and remixers. Accompanying collage activity.
OLUGBEMISOLA RHUDAY-PERKOVICH is the author of several children’s books, including Operation Sisterhood, an IndieNext Top Ten Pick and BCALA Best Book of the Year, Makeda Makes A Birthday Treat, a Chicago Public Library and Bank Street Best Book of the Year, It Doesn’t Take A Genius, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, as well as the picture book Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins (a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the National Council for the Social Studies and CBC). Her debut novel, 8th Grade Superzero, was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Reading Association (IRA), and a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the National Council for the Social Studies and CBC). Two Naomis, co-authored with Audrey Vernick, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight For Our Future, is a Junior Library Guild Selection and YALSA nominee for Excellence in Nonfiction, and her release: The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers Edition), co-authored with Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin, was a YALSA nominee for Excellence in Nonfiction, a School Library Journal and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year.