KRLemmons Book Reviews, Children's literature, Multicultural literature

Book Review: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

Review by Jessica Agudelo DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 1

Poet, playwright, and youth development professional Useni Eugene Perkins has a long history of distinguished work; it was some time before one of his most well-known poems was publicly known to be his, even though “if you were a black child in a Black classroom anywhere in the United States since 1975, there is a […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 2

As a Trinidadian-American writer, it’s particularly thrilling to see children’s books set in the Caribbean. The moment I saw the cover for HURRICANE CHILD, I was excited. Then the starred reviews started coming in. Kirkus wrote, “Callender draws readers in and makes them identify with Caroline’s angst and sorrow and joy and pain,” and School […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors, African American Young Adult Literature

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 3

As I rejoin my Brown Bookshelf colleagues in the trenches of 28 Days Later, I’m elated with today’s YA authors. They’re vocal in a new way and their books reflect a time period where young people are witness to divisive political rhetoric that has remained at its height since President Obama took office a life […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 4

There’s something special about celebrating family. And that’s what you become when you publish with Just Us Books. Katura J. Hudson is the director of marketing for the company her parents founded three decades ago. She has lovingly edited and promoted countless titles by Black children’s book creators including mine. It’s a joy to honor […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 5

Ray Anthony Shepard’s Now or Never-Fifty-Fourth Massachsetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery has earned two starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. His meticulously researched book is riveting and lands you squarely on the battlefield. The Journey I was born in Missouri, a state that benchmarked the path to Civil War, in […]

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KRLemmons 28 Days Later Campaign, African American Authors

The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Campaign Day 6

Today we honor new author Baptiste Paul and his forthcoming picture book, The Field, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara, to be released by NorthSouth Books/S&S on March 6, 2018. In his debut title, Paul pays homage to his childhood home (the beautiful island of St. Lucia), his native language (Creole), and the internationally-beloved game of soccer. […]

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KRLemmons Book Releases

February Releases From CrazyQuiltEdi

American Panda by Gloria Chao (Simon Pulse) ages 12-18 Debut Author A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents’ expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths–that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to […]

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