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The Gottesman Libraries participates in an automated plan to receive the best and latest children's books, fully cataloged and physically processed, every Spring as part of our commitment to build collections in areas of strength and relevance.

Here is Part Two of the 2024-2025 award winning and notable children's books acquired this Spring on standing order through automated approval.

Indigenous Ways of Knowing examines the interconnections of all living things ― humans, animals, plants, nature ― as well as the critical consideration of multiple approaches to education, research, and sustainability. Moving behind "colonial" paradigms ― perhaps described as qualitative, quantitative, or increasingly data-driven ― we turn to alternative methodologies and more holistic ways of thinking ― teachings of the natural world; application of oral tradition; art of storytelling; embodied traditions; and the value of ethnography.

As a result of the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gas emissions produced by industry, transport, deforestation, and burning fossil fuels, the Earth's temperatures are rising. With overheating of the planet's surface, ice is melting; glaciers, shrinking; and sea levels, rising. As ocean currents slow down, extreme weather events, including  ooding, speed up. While global e orts are underway to reduce CO2 emissions, climate change is becoming more and more concerning, particularly when short-term political and economic interests override longer term care and preservation of the planet.

Founded on April 23rd, 1635, Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in America, established with funding from the town of Boston.

Eminent social psychologist, activist, and Teachers College alumna Mamie Phipps Clark was born April 18th, 1917 in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Harold H. Phipps, a physician and resort manager, and Katy Florence Phipps, a homemaker.