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The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Day 18: Tamisha Anthony, illustrator for On Our Way! What a Day!
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The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later Day 15: Lance Evans, illustrator Six Triple Eight
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The Brown Bookshelf 28 Days Later: Day 12 Monica Mika, author/illustrator, Haircut Day with Dad
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365 Black Books: 2018 Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners and Honors Tuesday
Returning to the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, the following books were the 2018 winners and honors.
2018 Author Winner: Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
2018 Illustrator Award Winner: Out of Wonder, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
2018 Author and Illustrator Honors Title: Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut; written by Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Gordon C. James
John Steptoe New Talent Author Award Winner: The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore. A very good book!
John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner: Mama Africa!; illustrated by Charly Palmer
365 Black Books: 2025 Miself in Books Sunday
Miself in Books is an inclusive list of books curated by Michigan school librarians. You can access and download the pdf document here:
Book 1 PreK-Grade 1: Oshun and Me: A Story of Love and Braids by Adiba Nelson; illustrated by Alleanna Harris
Book 2 Lower Elementary: At Night, They Danced by Victoria Scott-Miller; illustrated by Toni D. Chambers
Book 3 Black Lives Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden; illustrated by David Wilkerson
Book 4 High School: Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
365 Black Books Bryan Collier Tuesday
Bryan Collier, award winning illustrator celebrated his birthday Jan. 31 He has illustrated several books. I bought his first illustrated book Uptown years ago at an ALA conference. The publisher rep told me he was an up and coming illustrator. She was right. My students loved the book and I have bought many of his books since then!
Information about him can be found at these two sites: Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House
365 Black Books 2020 CSK Book Awards Friday
2020 Author Winner: New Kid by Jerry Craft
2020 Illustrator Award Winner: The Undefeated; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
2020 John Steptoe New Talent Author Award Winner: Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
2020 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner: What is Given From the Heart; illustrated by April Harrison
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