Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• Author: Irene Latham

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  Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

  By Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls (Illustrator), Selina Alko (Illustrator)

  A school writing assignment is the catalyst for conversations around race, class, and privilege in this illustrated poetic conversation between two fifth-graders who learn to honor each other's differences.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781512404425
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  The Cat Man of Aleppo

  By Irene Latham (Author), Karim Shamsi-Basha (Author), Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

  War-torn Aleppo is given hope from Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel’s humanitarian efforts to care for the deserted cats in the city. 

  • Fiction, History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2021, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2021 (Honor Title)
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9781984813787
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  The Cat Man of Aleppo

  By Karim Shamsi-Basha (Author), Irene Latham (Author), Ramsey Faragallah (Narrator)

  Set against a lush soundscape, complete with many meows, Faragallah’s quiet narration tells the story of Alaa, who stayed in Syria at the start of the war to work as an ambulance driver.

  • Audiobook
  • Notable Children's Recordings 2022
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780593342022