Let's Talk Kits

Let’s Talk Kits use storytelling to help families have important conversations. Packaged in an easy-to-carry tote, each kit includes a variety of books and other media to foster conversations across many ages and reading levels. 

Although the books may seem like they are for specific ages, they are meant to be used for a shared experience among the different members of a family. For instance, a family may decide to focus on reading the different picture books together to promote conversations.  Maybe a child wants their guardian, parent, or grandparent to read the chapter book included.  Or the same chapter book could be used as a read-aloud together.  It is really up to you how you want to use the materials with your family.

To help you get started, a discussion guide accompanies almost every item. Adults and older children may want to preview the guides so that they can read the text with the discussion questions in mind.

Kits can be checked out for 3 weeks. Kits must be returned in person during the Bolton Public Library's operating hours and cannot be shipped to surrounding libraries.

Anti-Racism Kit

Includes:

• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
• New Kid by Jerry Crafts
• What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
• Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race by Megan Madison & Jessica Ralli
• Just Mercy dvd
• Discussion Guides 

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Family & Belonging Kit

Includes:

• Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez
• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
• Drawn Together by Minh Le
• A Family Is A Family Is A Family Is A Family by Sarah O'Leary
• Some Places More than Others by Renee Watson
• Coco dvd
• Discussion Guides

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Social Movements and History

Includes:

• Sometimes People March by Tessa Allen
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down  by Andrea Davis Pinkey
• Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar  Chavez by Kathleen Krull
• All the Way To The Top by Annette Bay Pimentel
• Pride: The Story Of Harvey Milk and The Rainbow  Flags  by Rob Sanders
• Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America  by Deborah Diesen
• Wangari Maathai  by Frank Prevot
• The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano  by Sonia Manzano
• White Rose  by Kip Wilson
• Selma Lord Selma dvd
• Discussion Guides

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