This month we’re celebrating people who have Made a Difference through their good work. Each day, we’ll highlight a book about someone who has effected positive change, with a roundup on Fridays. Follow the hashtag #HBMaDJan17 @HornBook and Facebook.com/TheHornBook.
This week’s picks:
- Review of Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Javaka Steptoe’s tribute to the groundbreaking artist
- A Q&A for Javaka Steptoe on Radiant Child
- Review of the biography series Little People, Big Dreams, introducing primary readers to female innovators in a wide variety of disciplines
- Review of A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day, author Andrea Davis Pinkney’s picture-book Keats biography and love letter to Snowy Day protagonist Peter (illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson)
- Five questions for Andrea Davis Pinkney about A Poem for Peter
- “The Enduring Footprints of Peter, Ezra Jack Keats, and The Snowy Day” by Kathleen T. Horning (from the July/August 2016 Horn Book Magazine)
- Reviews of Grandfather Gandhi and Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus (illustrated by Evan Turk), real-life anecdotes about Mahatma Gandhi as remembered by his grandson
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