Interview: Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams, Shadra Strickland

Alice Randall is the only black woman in history to have written a number one country song. She’s a produced screenwriter and a successful author of contemporary adult fiction. Caroline Randall Williams, her daughter, is an award winning poet and the great-granddaughter of Arna Bontemps. Shadra Strickland  won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott… Read More Interview: Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams, Shadra Strickland

book review and a pairing: The diary of B. B. Bright Possible Princess

title: The diary of B. B. Bright Possible Princess authors: Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams illustrator: Shadra Strickland date: Turner Books; September, 2012 main character: B.B. Bright reading level: 3.0 B.B. Bright is an orphan girl who lives on an island with her three godmommies. As she faces her thirteenth birthday, she begins to realize… Read More book review and a pairing: The diary of B. B. Bright Possible Princess