If you missed ordering your copy of The Dark Fantastic : Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (NYU Press), you missed big! The book has outsold its first run and new books will need to be printed to fill the growing demand. It is truly… Read More Syllabus : The Dark Fantastic
I’ve been struggling with a topic for this essay for weeks now with my mind flooding with memories from my 12 years as a classroom teacher. I could just write a book and fill it with faces and their stories. I want to document my first principal, the one who hired white teachers in the… Read More When You Get Lit : And Burn
Title: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Author: Ben Philippe date: Balzer + Bray/Alloy; January 2019 main character: Norris Kaplan young adult romantic fiction Many think all resistance is good. Politically, it is certainly necessary to pushback again agendas that are oppressive, inequitable or unjust. I find that on a personal level, my… Read More book review: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Congratulations to Naomi Shihab Nye who was recently name the U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate.! Debbie Reese recently called attention to the International Literacy Association’s (ILA) Choices reading list. She blogged about the problem and also tweeted about it. The blog post describes the list by stating “Our newly released 2019 ILA Choices reading lists… Read More SundayMorningReads
Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is from Texas. Her first book, Pie is for Sharing was a Kirkus Best Picture book of 2018. It was illustrated by Jason Chin. Home is a Window, illustrated by Chris Sasaki, is her second picture book. Sasaki’s website describes him as “an animation art director and illustrator living in Oakland, California.”… Read More a brief look at HOME IS A WINDOW
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