![]() ![]() ![]() You may also be interested in our page titled “Diversity.” We highlight picture books and chapter books that celebrate and inform us about human diversity including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, allergies, single parent families, interracial families, same sex parents, aging, death and more.ĭon’t miss our page of quotes about diversity. Based on a true story, Ruby’s Wish will be enjoyed by children five years and up. Ruby’s Wish is beautifully illustrated and lovingly told. Each day, Ruby worked hard to study with the boys in addition to learning all of the household skills expected of girls. Unlike her girl cousins, Ruby did not want to be married she wanted to go to university. In her household, because there were many children, a teacher came and taught all the boys. At that time, girls did not typically have a chance to go to school but Ruby was fortunate. Many years ago, Ruby lived with her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in a huge house in a city in China. Picture book published by Chronicle Books Ruby’s Wish written by Shirin Yim Bridges and illustrated by Sockie Blackall Shirin Yim Bridges is the author of Ruby's Wish, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2002 and winner of two 2003 Ezra Jack Keats awards The Umbrella Queen, named one of the Best Children's Books of 2008 by TIME magazine Mary Wrightly So Politely which won a featured review in the New York Times Review of Books The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses Agrippina. ![]()
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