The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Shadra Strickland in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK The title of her blog says it all: LIVING THE DREAM. A dream born many years ago, when she was just a child. A dream nourished by a supportive mother. A dream guided through instruction at [ Read the full article… ]
I don’t think we’ve had any picture book folks yet, have we? Good thing we have Nadia up today. This post is from 2017. Since then, Nadia has added to the Malaika series, and has another picture book biography: A Likkle Miss Lou. While working with this talented author on her 28 Days Later spotlight, [ Read the full article… ]
For day 2, we’re highlighting Bajan author Shakirah Bourne, who blogged for us back in 2021. Fun fact, I met Shakirah on a maxi taxi in Trinidad a few years ago when the folks from Bocas Lit Fest brought me down for the annual Caribbean Literature Festival. We were on our way to a cocktail [ Read the full article… ]
It’s FEBRUARY! January was basically whiplash, right? Or is that just me? Things have been moving so quickly around here that we’re doing throwback posts this year for 28 Days Later instead of our usual new posts. And I have week 1. Yay me! For my 7 days I will be highlighting writers from the [ Read the full article… ]
Today, the Brown Bookshelf is thrilled to celebrate the release of Desiree Cooper’s NOTHING SPECIAL, her picture book debut! “Nothing Special is…about a Detroit boy named Jax, who travels to Virginia to spend time with his grandparents. He thinks he’s going to do all the city things he loves, but his PopPop has other ideas,” [ Read the full article… ]
Last year, our friend Torrey Maldonado came up with a great idea – helping kids understand what Juneteenth means by sharing the reflections of Black children’s book creators. We’re thrilled that he’s back showcasing even more voices. The first federal holiday created since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. [ Read the full article… ]
Debut young adult author Michelle Coles fought for civil rights as an attorney before expanding her mission to include writing history stories for teens that filled them with purpose and pride. Listed as one of the John & Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation’s Good Troublemakers, she says on that site: “It is my responsibility to bring [ Read the full article… ]
Years ago, when we first started the 28 Days Later initiative, I gladly took on the task of covering the illustrators. I worried though. At that time, there were only a handful of working Black illustrators in the field—about enough to count on ten fingers and a few toes. For that reason, I limited the [ Read the full article… ]
