Book Awards
In Jackie Woodson's Brooklyn living room, "on hiatus from saving the world." Photo: Nataki HewlingI am a poet.On the morning of the youth media announcements, Jacqueline Woodson and I are texting each other. There is a shift happening in the wonderful world of children’s books, and we feel it, and...
Some of the most eagerly awaited announcements during the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference are the Coretta Scott King Awards. This year, with all the discussion about diversity, anticipation was high about what would captivate the CSK jury. Would previously decorated authors and illustrators receive additional accolades to gild...
It is Friday afternoon and I’m sitting in a restaurant in Vancouver, B.C. In an hour, I will give my final talk of a two-day visit. In these two days, I’ve visited a number of schools in Vancouver — both independent and public. As I stood in front of each...
Photo: Marty UmansOne of the greatest joys of my career has been seeing Brown Girl Dreaming come to life and reverberate as it has been handed from reader to reader.I have been lucky enough to work with Jacqueline Woodson for almost twenty years. She was the very first author I...
I’ve just about given up on the world.A friend of mine, a book-wise, hanger-thin Jamaican, whose spider fingers dance across endless stories, whose easy smile softens the formality of his dress, sent me an essay he wrote, about how much safer he felt as a child in the gangster-riddled streets...
You knowI ain’t never met a giantWho can make thingsGiants usually break thingsUnmake thingsBut not youYou make thingsYou build worldsAnd road mapsAnd treasure mapsYou build treasuresAnd hide gold coins in the palmsOf small handsHow you be so swift anyway?How everybody see you comingBut nobody see it coming?You knowI never met...
What a thrilling ALA Annual conference this year in San Francisco (so we hear...). We hope you were able to pick up a copy of the July/August Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Awards. If not, it'll be in your mailbox soon. If not? Subscribe to the Magazine, for goodness sake!In...
Winner: Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 328 pp.8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and...
Illustrator Award Winner: Christopher Myers for FirebirdFirebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland
Shows a Young Girl How to
Dance like the Firebirdby Misty Copeland;
illus. by Christopher MyersPrimary Putnam 40 pp.9/14 978-0-399-16615-0 $17.99 gThink you can simply write off celebrity books? Think again. American Ballet Theatre soloist Copeland is just as graceful...
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