shadrieka Publisher’s Weekly gives OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR a starred review! *Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change by Michelle Cook, illus. by Cozbi A. Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Bryan Collier et al Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-418-4 Showcasing the art of 13 artists, this resonant book was inspired … Read more
A big THANK YOU goes to Judy Zuckerman at the Brooklyn Public Library for hosting me at last week’s Children’s Librarians Meeting. I had a great time meeting with librarians from all across Brooklyn and sharing my work! Also grateful am I to Judy, Andrea, Ellen, and Rachel for introducing me to Cheryl’s Global Soul … Read more
Mark your calendars The city of brotherly love is hosting the Free Library Festival on April 18th. I’ll be signing copies of OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR at 1:30PM and BIRD at 4:00PM. If you’re in Philly stop by and say hello! There’s tons of literary royalty to be met that weekend. Hope to see you … Read more
For those who missed my talk with Esther Armah and Deborah Taylor at WBAI radio, check out the mp3 archive here. Thank you to Havelock Nelson at Goodman Media International for orchestrating this event!
This Friday I will be speaking with Deborah Taylor, the Coretta Scott King Award Jury Chair on OFF THE PAGE, a radio show about the world of books. I hope you can tune in! Also check out teachingbooks.net for more conversation about books and the people who are behind them. There’s a fun behind the … Read more
Booklist gives OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR a starred review! *Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change. “Celebration, inspiration, and connection are the themes that drive this big, handsome picture book with art by 13 leading artists. There is the celebration of the historic 2008 presidential election, its connection … Read more
I have been reading Arundhati Roy’s THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS for about two months now. The writing is so chock full of metaphor and whimsical details that after a few chapters I find I have to put the book down to digest what I’ve just read. Sadly, at the end with roughly four chapters … Read more
My editor wrote recently to inform me that BIRD has been selected as a Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) “choices” book for 2009. It made me start to think about all of the honors that BIRD has received and what they all mean. For book readers who may not understand all of the lists and … Read more
I have no new art to share yet. Everything is in progress. In the meantime, I want to give some free advertising to my new favorite coffee company, COMMUNITY COFFEE of Louisiana. I fell in love with this coffee on a research trip in December and ordered four bags when I got back to NY. … Read more
Go here for a great interview with School Library Journal. Funny, how the world brings us all together. I met Rocco Staino last year on my way back from ALA. Serendipity would have it that he was a writer for SLJ, and ended up doing a feature on me today at the School Library Journal … Read more