What do you do after launching a successful MG novel about blending families? Why follow it with a sequel, of course. Help us celebrate our Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and the book birthday of Naomi’s Too. Co-authored by Audrey Vernick, Naomi’s Too follows Naomi E. and Naomi Marie as they try to navigate their new lives as step sisters. In this sequel to Two [ Read the full article… ]
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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Today is the book birthday for a special anthology. Edited by Wade and Cheryl Hudson and published by Crown Books for Young Readers in cooperation with the Hudsons’ company, Just Us Books, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices is a treasury of poems, prose and art that offers hope and encouragement to children in these challenging times. The [ Read the full article… ]
Book Party – So Done
We know you don’t want to admit it, but summer is almost over. *heavy sigh* Let’s have one more book party before fall swoops in. Help us celebrate BBS’s Paula Chase and her MG debut, So Done. They had always been best friends. Until that summer… Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers. [ Read the full article… ]
Book Party – Minecraft: The Crash
Any time is a good time for a book party. Add gaming into it and you’re about to add joy to a young reader’s life when you join us in celebrating the latest from BBS’s own Tracey Baptiste. When Bianca Marshall, an avid Minecraft enthusiast wakes in the hospital, almost paralyzed by injuries from a car [ Read the full article… ]
Check Your Respect
I’ve never understood how people can cheer for adults playing professional sports and still form their mouths to question why someone would pursue the creative arts professionally. Athletes literally play a game for a living, but we question dancers? Artists? Writers? Has capitalism gotten us so twisted that we only covet careers that bring us [ Read the full article… ]
Celebrating Our Voices: 28 Days Later Honorees
We are proud to announce the honorees for our 11th annual 28 Days Later campaign, a Black History Month celebration of outstanding children’s book creators. Each day during February, we will showcase an author or illustrator whose work reflects parts of who we are. It’s more important than ever to raise awareness and support books [ Read the full article… ]
So, what DO y’all want?
Some days I feel like the old school griot of The Brown Bookshelf whose only job is to remind folks of the origins. You know? I’m here to remind folks where we started and compare it to where we’ve come. So, in that spirit, I got to thinking that maybe behind-the-scenes publishing is saying of [ Read the full article… ]
Voices of Change: A Teen Reflects on Freedom
Freedom By JGL, 13 What’s the use of freedom, if we’re not really free You say all religions will be treated equally Don’t ostracize Muslims, let them be What’s the use of freedom, if we’re not really free Our president doesn’t support free press, it may be gone soon Forthright writing is only found once [ Read the full article… ]