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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...
      

Review of Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden

Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden by Phyllis Root and Gary D. Schmidt; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary, Intermediate    Candlewick    40 pp.    g5/22    978-1-5362-0429-2    $18.99Largely forgotten today, American writer Celia Laighton Thaxter enjoyed a significant literary career in the latter half of the nineteenth...
      

Review of Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott

Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary, Intermediate    Knopf    48 pp.    g 6/21    978-0-525-64811-6    $17.99 Library ed.  978-0-525-64812-3    $20.99 e-book ed.  978-0-525-64813-0    $10.99 This poignant picture-book biography opens on an illustration of Joyce Scott and...
      

Some Writer!: Melissa Sweet's 2017 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech

It is an honor to be here with my friends and colleagues whose work inspires me. I feel, as E. B. White wrote in Charlotte’s Web, “It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”When the idea for this book came to me, I...
      

To Inform and Delight: The Elements of Story — The Zena Sutherland Lecture

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Salutations! I am honored to be here with all of you. I never met Zena Sutherland, but she’s been described as “short and feisty,” and I like short and feisty women, especially, as in Zena’s case, ones with passion and panache. When Zena was offered the job to become editor...
      

Review of Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909by Michelle Markel; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary     Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins     32 pp.2/13    978-0-06-180442-7    $17.9The plight of early-twentieth-century female garment workers is brought to life in this biography of labor leader Clara Lemlich. To escape persecution in their native Ukraine, the Jewish...
      

Some Writer!

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Each year there is a book I see early in the season that sticks with me. This year it was Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet. Yes, that Melissa Sweet. The one who wrote or illustrated Balloons Over Broadway, The Right Word, A River of...
      

Information books | Class #4, fall 2016

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Our next class will be in two weeks, on November 9. We'll be talking about five information books: Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill, illustrated by Bryan...
      

Melissa Sweet Talks with Roger

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byMelissa Sweet has illustrated biographies of a number of historical figures — Horace Pippin (A Splash of Red), William Carlos Williams (A River of Words), Peter Mark...
      

Review of Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White

Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. Whiteby Melissa Sweet; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School    Houghton    164 pp.10/16    978-0-544-31959-2    $18.99    gSalutations! Sweet raises her collage skills to new heights while bringing her love and admiration for fellow Mainer E. B. White to the page for everyone to appreciate. Just...
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