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Review of Radiant
Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonIntermediate Dutton 320 pp.1/25 9780593855782 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593855799 $10.99In this historical novel in verse, fifth grader Cooper Dale is growing up near Pittsburgh in 1963 and grappling with issues concerning her identity as a Black child attending a predominantly white school. While her family encourages her...
Blowing the Horn: Gratitude and Hopes
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Roger Sutton. Photo courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. My most personal memories of the Horn Book began in 2012 when Andrew Karre, my editor at Lerner Books, called with news that No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem...
Review of Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality
Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; illus. by Alex BosticPrimary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 40 pp.11/23 9781728419237 $19.99This highly readable and engaging book tells the story of three six-year-old girls who were the first Black children to integrate a public school...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 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 by Lerner Publishing Group Writer and librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson has made something of a specialty of bringing hitherto under-recognized African American heroes into prominence, witness her 2009 picture book, Bad...
Make Way for Ashley! A Birthday Tribute
A poem written on the occasion of Ashley Bryan's 96th birthday. What a Morning! Sing to the Sun! Walk Together Children! Uh-Huh! Uh-Huh! Dancing Granny’s movin’ her feet. It’s Ashley’s day! Flying-High sweet! It’s been said that The Night Has Ears. Now the story’s told — his birthday’s...
Lift Every Voice: Dreams Never Realized
My mom and dad truly laid the foundation for my writing life by reading to me and my siblings every night — giving me a heart for stories. And there were many moments that followed that inspired my literary journey. Here is one.In February of 1991, my father showed me...
Spring 2019 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring 2019 Publishers’ Previews, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byThe once-renowned African American bronco-buster...
On Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s “Mind the Gaps: Books for ALL Young Readers” (from 2015)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson as a child.In her article from the March/April 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson looks back at her bookish childhood and how it informs her work as a youth services librarian in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. African Americans are just three percent...
Review of Don't Call Me Grandma
Don’t Call Me Grandmaby Vaunda Micheaux Nelson;
illus. by Elizabeth ZunonPrimary Carolrhoda 32 pp.2/16 978-1-4677-4208-5 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4677-9559-3 $19.99Ninety-six-year-old great-grandmother, Nell, doesn’t answer to “Grandma.” She doesn’t do hugs and kisses. She growls her disapproval at her great-granddaughter, who narrates this book. But belying Nell’s starchy exterior is the...
Review of The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s
Greatest Bookstoreby Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; illus. by R. Gregory ChristiePrimary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 32 pp.11/15 978-0-7613-3943-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4677-4618-2 $17.99If the central character of Nelson’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning No Crystal Stair (rev. 3/12) was the author’s great-uncle, Lewis Michaux, this picture book adaptation...
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