Today is a designated day for celebrating multicultural books for children. I chose a biography – just out – JOSEPHINE: THE DAZZLING LIFE OF JOSEPHINE BAKER by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Christian Robinson, Chronicle. What fun to read…
Category: Out of the Mainstream: Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability
Into The Deep
In the past several years, Zetta Elliott has emerged as a major author of speculative fiction featuring African-American protagonists. Her two previous books for young readers, the young adult novel A Wish After Midnight (2010) and the middle grade novel…
Defy: quiet and subtle lashings of feminist thought
Defy, a debut novel by Sara B. Larson, is a swashbuckling adventure tale about a girl-pretending-to-be-a-boy in order to save herself from the terrible fate that awaits her when she’s captured during a raid on her village. Her father and…
Francisco X. Stork – Remembering Who You Are
Dear Writer and Reader, this is for you. I offer this post as a gift. Listening to Francisco Stork is just such a gift. Francisco X. Stork – Remembering Who You Are Francisco Stork speaks humbly about his writer’s journey…
Writing Crossing Cultural Borders-An Introduction to a new blog series
This week’s guest post comes to us via Emily Jiang. Emily Jiang is a poet, writer, & composer. She is the author of Summoning the Phoenix, illustrated by April Chu, and published by Shen’s Books, an imprint of Lee &…
On Leadership and Social Justice: A Review of March Book One
As a college student in 1958, John Lewis read a comic-book account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the activism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By that point, Lewis had come to question the Jim Crow measures that limited…
AFRICA IS MY HOME
AFRICA IS MY HOME, A CHILD OF THE AMISTAD By Monica Edinger and illustrated by Robert Byrd Monica Edinger skillfully – and delightfully – tells an extraordinary story through the voice of a young girl who experiences an extraordinary journey. …
Exploring the Range of New Adult: A Review of Sideshow of Merit
Ann Angel’s interview with Lauren Myracle about The Infinite Moment of Us touched on the emergence of New Adult—a publishing category designed to appeal to readers in their upper teens and early twenties. Various other discussion groups have focused on…
HOW I BECAME A GHOST
HOW I BECAME A GHOST, A CHOCTAW TRAIL OF TEAR’S STORY by Tim Tingle From Chapter 1, “Talking Ghost” “MAYBE YOU HAVE never read a book written by a ghost before. I am a ghost…I should tell you something…
LOOKS LIKE DAYLIGHT
LOOKS LIKE DAYLIGHT by Deborah Ellis, Foreword by Loriene Roy Sit down. Open this book, LOOKS LIKE DAYLIGHT. You will be surprised. Deborah Ellis traveled across the North American continent – the U.S. and Canada – to interview Native…