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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson: Voices from History

March 23, 2022May 27, 2021 by Martin and Root

Books have been a part of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s life since the day she was born. “My mother found my name in a novel she was reading,” Nelson says. Books and family and history form a thread through many of Nelson’s award-winning picture books.

Books Set in Bookstores

September 22, 2020May 26, 2020 by Vicki Palmquist

For many of us, wandering around inside a bookstore is our Happy Place. It can also be a place of mystery, surprise, romance, adventure, how-tos, and an opportunity to tap into the knowledge of the universe. Here then are fifteen books for children that are set in bookstores. Archie Greene and the Magician’s Secret
written by D.D.

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School Desegregation in Children’s Literature

August 12, 2015August 4, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

by The Bookologist In this month’s “From the Editor,” Marsha Qualey share’s scholar Rudine Sims Bishop’s observation that while there are many nonfiction books for children and YAs about the civil rights events of the 1950s, not too many authors have tackled the topics in fiction. One exception might be school desegregation/integration,which is the focus of this month’s timeline.… more

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson: Voices from History

Books Set in Bookstores

School Desegregation in Children’s Literature

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