[The arrival of summer means a lot of good things, but high on the list for this AmericanStudier is the chance to read for pleasure, preferably on a beach blanket with a view of the crashing surf. For this year’s annual Beach Reads series, I’ll highlight recent or forthcoming books by colleagues and friends. Add your Beach Read ideas and nominations for a crowd-sourced weekend post that’ll always keep toes in the sand!]
Look, young
adults can’t boogie-board or suntan all summer long; they need great Beach
Reads too. So do their parents, their grandparents, their aunts and uncles, all
those who might be seeking to better understand and support the young adults in
their lives. Fortunately, my awesome FSU colleague Katharine
Covino has co-written (with Elizabeth
Englander and an illustrator) a series of perfect such books: The
Insanely Awesome Pandemic Playbook: A Humorous Mental Health Guide for Kids
(2020); The
Insanely Awesome POST Pandemic Playbook: A Humorous Mental Health Guide for
Kids (2021); and their newest collaboration, You
Got a Phone! (Now Read This Book) (2022). Those books are such great
resources that they might make said young adult get off the beach blanket and
head out on further adventures—but that just means they’ll return to regale the
beach party with all the summertime fun details!
Next Beach
Reads tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Beach Reads you’d nominate?
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