The children's book that beat 'Heated Rivalry' on the charts is officially getting a reprint

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On the Shelf Our World Is a Family By Miry Whitehill, Jennifer Jackson with illustrations by Nomar PerezSourcebooks Explore: $18If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Most of the recent bestselling books that came out around Valentine’s Day were, unsurprisingly, about love.Or about hockey.

But one book, published more than four years ago but arriving again June 19 as a reprint, not only broke the top 10 in picture books, but also charted just above “Heated Rivalry” in overall online sales — coming in at No.10 to the steamy ice romance’s No.

11.That book is: “Our World Is a Family: Our Community Can Change The World.” It’s a children’s book, also about love, but not about romantic love.

Instead, it’s about welcoming refugees and immigrants into our communities.It doesn’t use those words, because “Our World Is A Family” is a children’s story, written in plain language, with bright colors.“When we see someone new in our neighborhood,” the book asks, “how can we help them feel safe and loved and important? How can we tell them you’re not alone?”Ten years ago, co-author Miry Whitehill started helping refugee families resettle in the U.S.

in Southern California.As a single mother in Los Angeles, she had to take her young children around with her while her work evolved into a full-fledged nonprofit called Miry’s List.

And she wanted to talk with her kids about what she was doing.“I didn’t want to shield them from this reality,” Whitehill says.

“They needed to understand why it was important to visit these families.”Perhaps the most impactful thing a parent of color can do is encourage their kids to read books.It will help them know themselves and others better.So in 2019, when the Los Angeles-based writer Jennifer Jackson reached out to ask Wh...