SAVE THE DATE: JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD CEREMONY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018 AT 2:30 PM 777 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA FL 2 (44TH & 1ST) NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK […]
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Teaching Peace With Jane Addams
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS: TEACHING PEACE WITH JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD WINNERS Jump-start conversations about activism and social justice with these Jane Addams Children’s BookAward–winning titles. Like the Caldecott and Newbery […]
Lois Lowry Sees Childhood As Exploratory, Not Idyllic
LOIS LOWRY STILL THINKS KIDS NEED TO READ ABOUT TERRIBLE THINGS (AND SHE’S STILL RIGHT) There’s no heaviness, just certitude. Lois Lowry understands herself — a rare trait in a […]
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James Baldwin Story Of Childhood ‘Little Man, Little Man’ Reissued
A JAMES BALDWIN BOOK, FORGOTTEN AND OVERLOOKED FOR FOUR DECADES, GETS ANOTHER LIFE Some Baldwin fans and scholars hope that with the new edition, “Little Man, Little Man” will rightfully […]
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Carole Boston Weatherford Tells The Story Of The Amazing Grace
JOHN NEWTON’S SONG OF PRAYER You’ve sung the words countless times. You’ve heard the song in many places. But did you know the true story of the classic hymn? Most […]
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Graphic Works For Youth On Migrants, Refugees, Human Trafficking
GRAPHIC WORKS ON MIGRANTS, REFUGEES, HUMAN TRAFFICKING The story: In an accordion-style folded comic with drawings inspired by pre-Columbian art, Tonatiuh tells a fictional story of a Mexican laborer who […]
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Award Winning Author Sy Montgomery Writes Science That Excites
SCIENCE BOOKS THAT EXCITE I narrow that AP biology list down to my five favourite books….. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery – This is one of my […]
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Award Winning Kadir Nelson Creates ‘Summertime City’ Illustration For The New Yorker
KADIR NELSON CREATES NEW ‘SUMMERTIME CITY’ ILLUSTRATION FOR ‘THE NEW YORKER’ Kadir Nelson: “I was poring over photographs of neighborhood kids playing in the street, and I found an old […]
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Assuring Access To Literacy For Incarcerated Teens
LITERACY SPOTLIGHT: LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED TEENS From realistic YA fiction to memoirs and manga, students at Passages (a New York City Department of Education school network that serves youth ages […]
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Jane Addams Winner Malala Yousafzai’s Biopic “Gul Makai’ Depicts Her Speaking Out For Girls & Education
FIRST LOOK OF MALALA YOUSAFZAI’S BIOPIC ‘GUL MAKAI’ REVEALED The first motion poster of Gul Makai, a biopic on Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, the courageous Pakistani activist who defied […]