Mrs. Ashbury & Friends

Meet this husband and wife duo, Carlon and Nicole Boxx!   📚 Smelly So Sweet: The Meditating Mango   🔗  https://linktr.ee/electricfoodieclub     Smelly So Sweet is a mango that likes to show new friends what he learns in school and what he does to have fun. This book includes coloring pages, fun facts about mangoes and why you should give them a try!   Carlon and Nicole Boxx are a husband and wife writing team. Inspired by their young son and resident picky eater, Tefari, they created the Electric Foodie Club books. This series introduces new foods in a...

Meet Natalie McDonald-Perkins!   🛒 natalieperkins.org   📚 Best in Me   Natalie McDonald-Perkins' debut book, "Best in Me," is one that will linger within your soul for days, months, and years to come. This book reignites the senses through the use of poetry. Her intentional and perfectly crafted words take every adult on a nostalgic journey, forcing one to reexamine childhood wounds, at the hands of unkind people. While Perkins invites us into the lives of nine multicultural children, she effortlessly uses the power of language to weave a common thread that will resonate with children across the world,...

Congratulations Sherricka Carpenter Stanley!   🛒 www.sherrickacarpenterstanley.com   📚 I Fit IN Just Right!: Me and My Family   In her debut book, Author Sherricka Carpenter Stanley brings you to what feels like a Family Reunion, Thanksgiving and Bedtime routine all rolled into one! In this vividly illustrated and delightful rhyming book, “I Fit IN Just Right!: Me and My Family”, we get to come alongside this growing boy as he looks at all the prepositional ways he “fits” into his family. This love tap to the African American Family, explores both his father’s and mother’s side of the family...

Cheers to Yolanda Johnson!   📚 Loving My Locs: A book about embracing your Locs   Keisha, an African American young girl, and her family have beautiful locs. Keisha loves her rope-liked locs, but kids at school bully her for having different hair they have never seen before. Keisha's parents taught her about happiness, having confidence, and self-respect. Will she use the knowledge her parents taught her when facing bullies at school? Yolanda (Yo-Yo) Johnson is a native of Atlanta, Ga. She graduated magna cum laude in Information Technology at Strayer University but instead followed her passion to become a...

Say hello to Curtis Andrews!   📚 Captain Curriculum Saves Circle Time!   Curtis Andrews has been a resident of Northern Virginia his entire life. Just like his mother, Curtis developed a passion for young children and chose to pursue it as a career.   He studied Early Childhood Education at Northern Virginia Community College.   With over 25 years of experience, he has noticed that classroom management is a key component to having a successful classroom. With this belief and a passion for storytelling, Curtis decided to create a series of teacher resource guides in the form of children's...