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On Angela Johnson's "Family Is What You Have" (from March/April 1997)

by Kitty Flynn
Sep 26, 2016 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
angela_johnsonAward-winning author Angela Johnson (three Coretta Scott King awards, the Michael L. Printz Award in 2004, the 1991 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award—not to mention being a 2003 MacArthur Fellow), contributed "Family Is What You Have" to the Magazine's Family Reading issue in 1997.

Her message of embracing difference is as powerful today as it was twenty years ago:

"Though not everyone wants to acknowledge the varied family lifestyles of some, I say celebrate. Celebrate the differences and make children aware of families not like their own. What better way to do this but to read to them?

Kitty Flynn

Kitty Flynn is reviews editor for The Horn Book, Inc.

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