![two men and four children make art at a table](/sites/default/files/2024-03/Open%20Books%202024-01-20%204%20table%20view.jpg)
Families create together at Open Books Open Minds.
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Families engage in challenging topics at Open Books, Open Minds...and have fun, too!
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Presenter Crystal Elliott-O’Connor, MAT ECE, MDiv FCC, discusses the science of skin color with patrons at a Let's Learn Together program about racial literacy.
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Librarian Sarah Jo talks with parents and educators about using picture books to talk with children about big topics at a Between the Lines event.
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Find Let's Learn Together resources in the Youth Services Department.
![Three generations of family members make an art project together](/sites/default/files/2024-03/Open%20Books%202-17-24%20three%20generations%20art%20cropped.jpg)
Three generations create art together during Open Books Open Minds.
![White child's hand with dabs of paint in different skin tones](/sites/default/files/2024-03/LLT%20RL%20FW%20Jan%201%20skin%20colored%20paint.jpg)
A young patron shows off the skin-colored paint he mixed at a Let's Learn Together Racial Literacy workshop.
![Families talking with a basket of cookies in the foreground](/sites/default/files/2024-03/Let%27s%20Learn%20Together%20Family%20Workshop%204-23.jpg)
Presenter Crystal Elliott O'Connor shares family traditions and recipes with patrons at a Racial Literacy Family Workshop.
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WPL and the McKenzie PTA partnered to host Dr. Courtney Wells and Lee Wells, authors of A Kids Book about Pronouns, as part of the Between the Lines parent-educator series.
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Youth Services librarians Eti and Sarah Jo discuss LGBTQIA+ representation in children's literature with children's bookseller Gus at a Between the Lines parent/educator event on Using Kids Books to Learn about Pride.