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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 Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent

Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent by Mara Rockliff; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary    Abrams    40 pp.4/24    9781419752216    $19.99e-book ed.  9781647009496    $17.99The words revolutionary, art, and sister in the book’s subtitle offer a fitting description of the legacy of Sister Corita Kent, the “Pop Art Nun” (1918–1986)....
      

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...
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