Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge  written by Gary Golio, illustrated by James Ransome Nancy Paulsen Books. 2021, 32 pages Imagine being a ja...

To be honest, the two most exciting things about BEA 2014 for me was meeting Jacqueline Woodson and Andrea Davis Pinkney and it a typical ...

For Joylin Johnson, 12, there is nothing better than a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, a game of one on one with Jake, or hanging out with her b...

Let's face it, Poetry isn't really a favorite of kids, nor is it something they get much of in school.  I am afraid I am even gui...

The life of Josephine Baker was quite notorious and not what I would have thought to be the stuff of a children's biography, but Patr...

Living in abject poverty in Haiti, 11 year old Serafina makes a secret promise to her deceased little brother Pierre that she will someday...

We see pictures of the White House everyday in newspapers, magazines, on televison.  We use it as a metonym when we say the White House me...

A few years ago, we met Dave in Labab Carrick Hill's wonderful picture book Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave , illustrated by Brya...

In January, I was very pleased to learn that Louise Borden and her book   His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg   had been named winner of the 2...

February is Black History Month and I thought I would begin the month with a look at the life of Bessie Coleman.  Bessie was the first fem...