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. […]
Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s stunning YA debut HOW DARE THE SUN RISE begins with a massacre in a Burundi refugee camp where she lost her sister. It goes on to detail not only the horrors of her experience as a refugee, but more importantly, the beauty and joy that she has grown up with. This #ownvoices story […]
Carl T. Rowan, African American journalist:
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/rowan-carl-t-1925-2000
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ro-Sc/Rowan-Carl.html
http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interview/carl-t-rowan
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, African American author:
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/alex-haley
https://www.biography.com/people/alex-haley-39420?_escaped_fragment_=
Anna Julia Cooper, African American author, educator, and scholar:
http://ajccenter.wfu.edu/about-anna-julia-cooper/
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/cooper-anna-julia-haywood-1858-1964
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/03/12/385176497/a-child-of-slavery-who-taught-a-generation
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has been at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list and has been talked about all over Twitter since before it was released, so I’m not sure there’s much I can say about the specifics of the storyline of the book that hasn’t been said. As I said […]
via Five Reasons to Read The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – Review by Deana Metzke — Nerdy Book Club
It was so awesome to have the chance to sit next to Brenda Perryman, a poet, author and Detroit Legend! Ugly Link: https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=llH7yiBMNXTRDh5F
was Chester HImes, an African American novelist who wrote detective stories: http://www.detnovel.com/himes.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/HIMES/himes-chester_BIO.html
As a follow-up to Tuesday’s Black Kids on Covers post, here’s a look back at one of the authors included as she discusses her first two novels and how music helped her to write them. I wonder what music she wrote to while working on her upcoming Dread Nation! Enjoy this throwback post… What […]
Dear Kwame Alexander, Thank you for making us openly weep last year at the ILA conference when you said, “The mind of an adult begins with the imagination of a child,” and “all kids are the good kids” When we heard you say those words and the room burst into thunderous applause, we knew […]
via An Open Thank You Letter to Kwame Alexander — Nerdy Book Club
Towers Falling is a compelling novel set in Brooklyn, New York, fifteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Jewel Parker Rhodes writes an eloquent story about fifth graders who were not alive to witness the attacks on the towers. But as they learn of the events during lessons at school they begin to understand that the […]
via Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes – Review by Mary Boehmer — Nerdy Book Club
