I'm always super ambitious about Black History Month, but never feel like I'm doing a good enough job. This year, thanks to Little Leaders, our son is obsessed with reading about "amazing black people." We stumbled onto a really fun and easy approach about a week ago when we bought this book, each day (or, more honestly, most days) we let our son page through the book and pick one person he wants to learn more about. Then we read that page to him, along with a lot of discussion, and then supplement! For example, when we read the Nina Simone entry we listened to her music during dinner. The day we read about Dominque Dawes we watched her gymnastics routines on YouTube. Some are more difficult to add to, but that hasn't decreased our son's interest so far. His favorite entry was that of Mary Bowser (pictured below), in part because we have recently started to discuss slavery with him (and read him Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad for the first time), but more importantly because she was a SPY, which is like one step away from being a superhero.
(And if you're looking for other books about black history,
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