I saw this book at a local indie bookstore and immediately connected with the  beautiful words and images. What’s Special About Me Mama? written by Kristina Evans and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe is a tender story showcasing a mother’s love for her son. As the boy asks over and over what makes him special, his mama never [ Read the full article… ]

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  Rally Cry For Reading The Brown Bookshelf Announces 2011 Spotlight Authors & Illustrators Today, The Brown Bookshelf announced the twenty-four authors and four illustrators to be spotlighted in the group’s fourth annual 28 Days Later initiative, a month-long celebration of veteran and emerging children’s authors of color. “Four years in and spotlighting authors of [ Read the full article… ]

Author and blogger, Kyra Hicks, offers predictions for the 2010 Coretta Scott King Awards.

Each year, awards are given to authors and illustrators of outstanding children’s books,  Newbery, Caldecott, Siebert, Coretta, among them. And each year about this time, people try to predict who might win those awards. Some in the kidlitosphere have noted a lack of interest in discussions of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards by holding [ Read the full article… ]

October 16, 2010 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Million Man March, an event where African-American men from all over the country came together in the spirit of atonement, reconciliation, and responsibility. BBS’s Kelly Starling Lyons attended the march and is the author of the picture book, One Million Men and Me—a tender story told [ Read the full article… ]

Totally dating myself here, but remember that old Ragu commercial where the grandma was making spaghetti sauce and one of her new- school grandchildren comes up and starts making all these suggestions of what she should put in the sauce to make it better? And everytime the grandchild mentions an ingrediant, Grandma says (with all [ Read the full article… ]