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Shorecrest is not the only one celebrating a 50 year anniversary.
- School Library Journal - A Call For Submissions: Re-sendakify Sendak!
School Library Journal - A Call for Submissions: Re-Sendakify Sendak! URL: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2013/02/25/a-call-for-submissions-re-sendakify-sendak/ Last year the idea was simple if a bit odd. I called upon my artist readers...
- Cfp: For [working Title] The Story Of O: An Edited Volume On Oprah Winfrey
CFP: for [working title] The Story of O: an edited volume on Oprah Winfrey by Kimberly Springer and Angela Cotten Few public figures traverse the cultural, political, economic, and media boundaries with such savvy and success as Oprah Winfrey. Her story...
- Columbia Pike Book Club Discusses The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd
Wed, January 18, 7:30pm ? 8:30pm Columbia Pike Branch Library, 816 S Walter Reed Drive (map) The group will discuss The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists...
- Friends Book Club Discusses "the Help"
All are welcome to join the discussion of The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Thursday Dec. 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the Central Library's 2nd Floor Meeting Room. In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights...
- Give Great Books For All Ages
Want to give a gift they'll love for years? Try books! For Kids - Our children's librarians share their favorite books to give to kids on From Tots to Tweens - everything from picture books for the littlest readers, to chapter books for older...
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"The Snowy Day" still unusual 50 years later
Peter?s wondrous day full of snow angels and snowballs is something so many children can relate to. ...made in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, Keats?s book became the first full-color, mainstream picture book to feature a black boy as the main character.Read more. From The Christian Science Monitor, by Meredith Bennett-Smith
?He made the hero black, because he was there,? ... It wasn?t anything really more complicated than that.?
...this is a great story. It?s not that we?re all equal, it?s not that we?re all the same. We just are.
A book like 'Snowy Day' with an African-American protagonist would still be unusual 50 years later. ...The problem is not a decrease in demand... The problem now stems more from a business, rather than sociological, perspective.
?It used to be that schools and libraries were a bigger force, but with cuts to funding, they don?t have the buying power they had 20 years ago,? Horning said. ?The influence is on what will sell in the bookstore. And that can have an impact on what gets published.?
- School Library Journal - A Call For Submissions: Re-sendakify Sendak!
School Library Journal - A Call for Submissions: Re-Sendakify Sendak! URL: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2013/02/25/a-call-for-submissions-re-sendakify-sendak/ Last year the idea was simple if a bit odd. I called upon my artist readers...
- Cfp: For [working Title] The Story Of O: An Edited Volume On Oprah Winfrey
CFP: for [working title] The Story of O: an edited volume on Oprah Winfrey by Kimberly Springer and Angela Cotten Few public figures traverse the cultural, political, economic, and media boundaries with such savvy and success as Oprah Winfrey. Her story...
- Columbia Pike Book Club Discusses The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd
Wed, January 18, 7:30pm ? 8:30pm Columbia Pike Branch Library, 816 S Walter Reed Drive (map) The group will discuss The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists...
- Friends Book Club Discusses "the Help"
All are welcome to join the discussion of The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Thursday Dec. 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the Central Library's 2nd Floor Meeting Room. In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights...
- Give Great Books For All Ages
Want to give a gift they'll love for years? Try books! For Kids - Our children's librarians share their favorite books to give to kids on From Tots to Tweens - everything from picture books for the littlest readers, to chapter books for older...