“Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don’t put me in one, son. Believe me, I won’t fit.” ― Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade Named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book as well as an ALA Notable Book, this touching collection of 13 poems about two African American girls named Zuri Jackson and Danitra Brown, is…
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Thank you, Nikki Grimes, for sending me your amazing new book: Words with Wings!
Checking the mailbox is always fun for a book reviewer. We never know what gems the publishers are going to send us. So going to the mail is like Christmas every day — lots of great packages to open. But every once in a while an author herself sends a very special gift. That is…
Read a lovely interview with Lee Bennett Hopkins about his book AMAZING FACES
Amazing Faces is a new poetry anthology celebrating the faces all around us—girls and boys, women and men revealing the universal feelings we all share. Here, Lee Bennett Hopkins, the poet who gathered these poems, and Chris Soentpiet, the painter who illustrated them, share their thoughts on poetry, diversity, and the challenges and rewards of…
Nikki Grimes: “Received a lovely letter from a teen. Some of her questions were better than a few I’ve received from adults!”
“Received a lovely letter from a teen, today,” writes Nikki Grimes on her Facebook Page. ___ Some of her questions were better than a few I’ve received from adults! “I’ve been writing my own stories since I was little, and I’ve always wanted to know what the job was like. I’ve also been wondering, how…
Young People's Pavilion 