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FREADOM Town Hall & Rally
If you're in the DC area, check out FREADOM Town Hall & Rally on May 31 at 5:00 PM ET at the MLK Library (and streaming on YouTube @dcpubliclibrary). Speakers include past National Ambassadors for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds and Meg Medina (read their recent call to action), "warrior librarian" Tracie D. Hall,...
Acoustic Rooster on PBS Kids
GBH Boston, "the leading multiplatform creator for public media in America" (and, as with all public broadcasting, under grave threat), is known for producing great children's programming, some based on children's books (Curious George, Arthur, Martha Speaks, Pinkalicious, Time Warp Trio). Their latest, lively, book-to-show offering is Acoustic Rooster based on the 2011 picture...
Review of How Sweet the Sound
How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Charly PalmerPrimary, Intermediate Little, Brown 48 pp.1/25 9780316442497 $18.99In a reverent celebration of African American music, Alexander’s lyrical free-verse text flows through different eras and genres of sound. This musical tour begins in Africa: “Listen to the fireside chorus / of...
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Review of How to Sing a Song
How to Sing a Song by Kwame Alexander and Randy Preston; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp.10/24 9780063060937 $19.99In their third How to… book, Alexander and Sweet (How to Read a Book; How to Write a Poem, rev. 5/23) collaborate with singer-songwriter Preston to guide readers in tuning...
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Review of Black Star
Black Star [Door of No Return]by Kwame AlexanderIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 384 pp.9/24 9780316442596 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316442794 $9.99Continuing the story of a Black family’s trials, from Ghana to the United States, Alexander (The Door of No Return, rev. 9/22) sets this installment in Jim Crow–era Virginia. Charlene “Charley” Cuffey...
Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: Expect the Unexpected
Dare Coulter. Photo: Joshua Steadman for WALTER Magazine. The first thing one learns about working with Dare Coulter is to expect the unexpected. Her beautiful world has its own rules of order and its own rhythms and rhymes. Adages, idioms, metaphors need to be rewritten. Case in point — for...
Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: A Higher Level
R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...
2024 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by Dare Coulter
I just want to start by saying the real award for me is to be honored by all of you. To be in a room full of people who have fought the fight and have done the work that embodies what the Coretta Scott King Book Awards represent is humbling....
An American Story
An American Story is a captivating and thought-provoking book written by Kwame Alexander and beautifully illustrated by up-and-coming artist Dare Coulter. The book's artwork, which features paintings, photographs of polymer and clay sculptures, and drawings, heightening the impact of the historical narrative. Part of what makes Coulter's illustrations so captivating is the...
Review of How to Write a Poem
How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp. 4/23 9780063060906 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063309937 $10.99 Alexander and Nikaido offer a single poem as this lyrical picture book’s text, inviting young readers (and listeners) to “dive deep into the...
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