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2025 Bookish Books Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

My Progress:


27 / 30 books. 90% done!

2025 Cover Lovers Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

2025 Cover Lovers Reading Challenge (hosted by Yours Truly)

My Progress:


43 / 50 books. 86% done!

2025 Literary Escapes Challenge

- Alabama (1)
- Alaska (2)
- Arizona (2)
- Arkansas (1)
- California (8)
- Colorado (3)
- Connecticut (1)
- Delaware (1)
- Florida (1)
- Georgia (1)
- Hawaii (1)
- Idaho (1)
- Illinois (1)
- Indiana (1)
- Iowa (3)
- Kansas (1)
- Kentucky (1)
- Louisiana (1)
- Maine (4)
- Maryland (1)
- Massachusetts (1)
- Michigan (2)
- Minnesota (2)
- Mississippi (1)
- Missouri (1)
- Montana (1)
- Nebraska (1)
- Nevada (1)
- New Hampshire (1)
- New Jersey (1)
- New Mexico (1)
- New York (8)
- North Carolina (4)
- North Dakota (1)
- Ohio (1)
- Oklahoma (2)
- Oregon (3)
- Pennsylvania (2)
- Rhode Island (1)
- South Carolina (1)
- South Dakota (1)
- Tennessee (1)
- Texas (1)
- Utah (1)
- Vermont (3)
- Virginia (2)
- Washington (3)
- West Virginia (1)
- Wisconsin (1)
- Wyoming (1)
- Washington, D.C.* (1)

International:
- Australia (4)
- Canada (3)
- England (14)
- France (2)
- Greece (1)
- Italy (1)
- Japan (1)
- Norway (1)
- Puerto Rico (1)
- Scotland (2)
- Vietnam (1)

My Progress:


51 / 51 states. 100% done!

2025 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

My Progress:


30 / 50 books. 60% done!

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

My Progress:


36 / 50 books. 72% done!

Booklist Queen's 2025 Reading Challenge

My Progress:


40 / 52 books. 77% done!

2025 52 Club Reading Challenge

My Progress:


40 / 52 books. 77% done!

2025 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

My Progress:


29 / 40 books. 73% done!

2025 Craving for Cozies Reading Challenge

My Progress:


36 / 51 cozies. 71% done!

2025 Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge

2025 Mystery Marathon Reading Challenge

My Progress


26 / 26.2 miles. 99% done!

2025 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

My Progress


31 / 100 books. 31% done!

2025 Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge

My Progress:


68 / 109 books. 62% done!

2025 Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge

My Progress


56 / 62 books. 90% done!

Phase Out Your Seriesathon - My Progress


22 / 55 books. 40% done!

The 100 Most Common Last Names in the U.S. Reading Challenge

My Progress:


97 / 100 names. 97% done!

The Life Skills Reading Challenge

My Progress:


71 / 80 skills. 89% done!

Baby Steps to Understanding


Baby Steps to Understanding was inspired by my beautiful daughter, who's bi-racial (her birth father is Black, her birth mother is white). It wasn't until I adopted her that I realized how vastly underrepresented Black and bi-racial people are in modern literature. I want my baby to grow up loving books, I want her to find characters with whom she can identify, I want to see girls who look like her on book covers. To encourage myself and others to search out and celebrate the literature that does exist, I created this feature. Every time you see this button on a review at Bloggin' 'bout Books, you can be assured that the book being reviewed is:

(A) Written by an author who is Black (not necessarily African-American) or bi-racial; (B) Illustrated by an author who is Black or bi-racial; (C) Features a main character who is Black or bi-racial; or (D) Concerns a person, event or subject relevant to Black history, culture and/or heritage.

This post will serve as an index for all my reviews of "Baby Steps" books. It's a work in progress, so please be patient with me. Eventually, it will be all organized and updated!

Abramson, Jill (author): Obama: The Historic Journey (review)

Brown, Linda Beatrice (author): Black Angels (review)

Collier, Brian (illustrator): Martin's Big Words (review)

Collier, Kristi (author):  Jericho Walls (review)

Collison, Michele N-K (author): It's All Good Hair (review)

Jaye, Lola (author).  Being Lara.  (review)

Johnson, Angela (author): Heaven (review); The First Part Last (review)

Jones, Edward P. (author): The Known World (review)

Lester, Julius (author): Day of Tears (review)

Lewis, E.B. (illustrator): I Love My Hair! (review)

Lilly, Deborah R. (author): Wavy, Curly, Kinky (review)

Locke, Attica (author):  Black Water Rising (review); The Cutting Season (review)

Myers, Walter Dean (author): Lockdown (review)

Nelson, Kadir (author/illustrator): Moses (review)

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen (author): Wench (review)

Rappaport, Doreen (author): Martin's Big Words (review)

Rhodes, Jewell Parker (author): Ninth Ward (review)

Rinaldi, Ann (author).  Numbering All the Bones (review)

Smith, Sherri L.  (author):  Flygirl (review)

Stockett, Katherine (author): The Help (review)

Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia (author): I Love My Hair! (review)

Walker, Brian F. (author):  Black Boy, White School (review)

Wilkins, Ebony Joy (author):  Sell-Out (review)

Williams-Garcia, Rita (author):  One Crazy Summer (review)

Woodson, Jacqueline (author): Feathers (review); Hush (review); If You Come Softly (review)

Wright, Bil (author): When the Black Girl Sings (review)


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