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I wish I was a star Not the kind on stage Where crowds and crowds Shouted and clapped And every time I looked around I had another photo shoot Or interview or somebody wanted me To do something important… But the kind floating Quietly around the sky Twinkling at the...
A Library by Nikki Giovanni ; illus. by Erin K. Robinson Primary Versify/HarperCollins 32 pp. g9/22 978-0-358-38765-7 $18.99 In this picture-book celebration of libraries and reading, poet Giovanni writes about the Carnegie Library, which she regularly visited as a child. Robinson’s digital art resembles vibrant collages...
Kwame and Nikki. Photo: Beatrice Saba.Over the past twenty years, I’ve been a vegan, a vegetarian, and a pescatarian. There have been only three periods in my adult life when I’ve indulged in the pleasures of meat. One was right after winning the Newbery, when I found myself craving cheeseburgers....
I Am Lovedby Nikki Giovanni; illus. by Ashley BryanPrimary Dlouhy/Atheneum 32 pp.1/18 978-1-5344-0492-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0493-9 $10.99A legendary pair presents a volume of verse worth remembering. Bryan’s recognizably vibrant, colorful, and moving illustrations accompany a selection of Giovanni’s poems (both new and previously published). The electric blue, sunny yellow, warm...
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 byThe equally eminent poet Nikki Giovanni and artist Ashley Bryan, longtime friends, first collaborated more than twenty years ago for The Sun Is So Quiet. In I...
Listen to poet Nikki Giovanni perform "The Rosa Parks (A Song in Rhythm)"[audio wav="https://www.hbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NikkiGiovanni-TheRosaParks-Version2-1-2.wav"][/audio]Read Nikki Giovanni and Ashley Bryan Talk with Roger....
I laugh with my students…I hope never at…whenthey tell me they are having Writer’s Block…No SuchThing…I declare…that’s only a sign…of not enoughknowledge…go do your research…and to me that’s theend…yet…I am having Writer’s Block…because I wantso much…to write the perfect introduction…to one ofthe nicest young men I knowDo I start twenty...