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The world knows Margot Lee Shetterly‘s work. Hidden Figures, the $125 million-grossing movie starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae, was based on her New York Times bestselling book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HC, September 2016). The […]
Zetta Elliott has posted on her website, a list of middle grades and young adult titles by African American authors in 2016. Click on this link: http://www.zettaelliott.com/2016-mg-ya-titles-by-african-americans/
In 2014, he was already on his way to becoming “the” Jason Reynolds. Today–a mere two years, a John Steptoe Award, multiple CSK Awards, a Walter Dean Myers Award, a Kirkus Prize, a National Book Award Finalist sticker, and an NAACP Image Award nomination later–Reynolds has firmly cemented his status as a kidlit superstar. Read […]
Read information on historical African American events in November posted on The Munirah Chronicle : http://listserv.icors.org/scripts/wa-ICORS.exe?A1=ind1611&L=munirah
For my throwback Thursday, I chose one of my favorite illustrators, Vanessa Brantley Newton. Although I’m also a big fan of more realistic illustrators / painters such as Eric Velasquez and E.B. Lewis, there’s something about her cartoony style that always makes me smile. The drawings are super cute, and I can always imagine them […]
The original version of this memoir was written for general audiences. This review is based on an advance reader’s copy of the young readers edition. Reviewed by Lila Quintero Weaver Echoes of Cinderella reverberate throughout Reyna Grande’s forceful and captivating memoir of a family torn apart by internal and external stressors, centered in a years-long […]
via Libros Latinx: The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande — Latinxs in Kid Lit
I have never read a self-help book myself, at least not all the way through, but I’ve heard that they’re a multi-billion dollar industry just in the U.S. alone. It seems Americans are willing to spend big money on self-improvement or ways to “fix” themselves. I can certainly see the appeal. Who doesn’t want to…
Last week I reviewed Yi Shun Lai’s Not A Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu and let me once again recommend it to you all. If you’re a fan of epistolary novels, this book is a must-must read. It has a unique voice and plot, with memorable characters and complex relationships. The mother-daughter relationship is…
via Q&A With Yi Shun Lai, Author of “Not A Self-Help Book” — Read Diverse Books
My Throwback Thursday landed on Nikki Grimes and I’m delighted it did. What a talent! If only . . . I love her Dyamonde Daniel chapter book series. I featured it in my afterschool book club. I sent copies to my teacher-daughter to use in her classroom. Her students loved it, too. I only wish […]
Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Reputations was originally published in 2006 in the author’s native Spanish. Ten years after publication, English-speakers finally get the chance to read this novel by the award-winning and often-lauded Colombian writer. I don’t read nearly enough translated fiction, especially from South American authors, so Reputations sounded like the perfect book for me. Plot Overview …
via Review: Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez — Read Diverse Books
The CamaraIfe Maktaba 