2018 Green Earth Book Winners Announced From the Nature Generation – their official announcement “The Nature Generation Announces National Green Earth Book Award Winners Modern day storytellers shed light on complicated environmental issues April 20, 2018– Arlington, Va. — The…
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Celebrate Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle – powerful voice for many who have been silenced
April is Poetry Month, a perfect time to choose a poem, a book of poems, or even a novel written in poems. Savor the words, the rhythm, the images that will touch your heart and kindle your imagination. Take…
Interview with Jessica Spotswood, Editor of The Radical Element
Last week, I reviewed The Radical Element, a collection of 12 short stories about young women, outsiders in American history, who take charge of their lives and destinies. Today, I am pleased to host the anthology’s editor, Jessica Spotswood, for…
GROUNDWOOD BOOKS a publisher to know
Groundwood Books celebrate diversity. In the words of Sheila Barry, Publisher, their commitment is to publish “the most exciting Canadian voices we can find. Whether it’s a picture book from Nunavut in the Arctic or a Carnival story about a…
50 Hours by Loree Lough, Based on a Screenplay by Kevin James O’Neill
50 Hours Written by Loree Lough Based on the Screenplay by Kevin James O’Neill Protagonist, Franco Allessi has had a few years of bad luck starting with a horrific car accident that he survived though his wife, Jill, did…
An Unusual Wedding and More: A Review of The Wedding Portrait
In the past few years, Indonesian-born author/illustrator Innosanto Nagara has distinguished himself with multiple picture books on youth and activism for ever-older readers, all published by progressive small press Triangle Square, the children’s imprint of Seven Stories Press. His first…
During this season of giving, of hope, of compassion, consider this gift —
Please consider this special opportunity to purchase the late Frances Lee Hall’s middle-grade book, LILY LO AND THE WONTON MAKER – a delightful book for a young reader. Your purchase will also be a gift to help support her daughter’s education. …
Come On In, America: The United States in World War I by Linda Barrett Osborne
Although the title is somewhat misleading (and actually a little odd), Come on In, America is a very thoughtful and thorough examination of the Geo-political and cultural aspects of World War I, a conflict that, at one hundred years old,…
Traveling Through Time, Facing the Past: An Interview With YA Author Katherine Locke
Last month I reviewed Katherine Locke’s debut YA novel The Girl With the Red Balloon, a time travel set in present day Berlin, in East Berlin in the final years of the Cold War, and in the Lodz ghetto of…
Bronze and Sunflower, a Tale from China’s Cultural Revolution
Seven-year-old Sunflower is the daughter of an artist forcibly relocated from the city to the countryside during China’s cultural revolution. By day, he works in the “Cadre School,” leaving the young child to explore the river and nearby village of…