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News Articles: Children's Literature

Kwame Alexander (left) and Jerry Craft have each won a Newbery Medal for their children's books. Alexander invited Craft on a trip to Kenya this summer to speak to schoolkids about reading. The kids were impressed. So were the authors.

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From snow to Dr. Seuss: What Newbery Medalist authors discussed with Kenyan kids

Kwame Alexander, a poet, and Jerry Craft, an author and illustrator, went to Kenya to encourage reading — and learned a lot in the process.

September 18, 2023
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By:
  • Thomas Bwire and
  • Vicky Hallett
Nikki Grimes, the winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, has written more than 100 children's books.

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2022 was a good year for Nikki Grimes, who just published her 103rd book

The winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement has written more than 100 children's books. Her latest, about the pandemic, is called Garvey in the Dark.

December 23, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Elijah Gomez wearing a black bucket hat with an eyeball design.

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Documenting History: 12-Year-Old Journeys Through The Arts, Pandemic On His Blog

This year has been universally jarring to many of our routines and expectations of 2020. For 12-year-old Elijah Gomez growing up in the historic Grant Park neighborhood, this year catalyzed his love for arts and transformed it into a blog.

 

 

December 02, 2020
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Jade Abdul-Malik
(Left) Maira Kalman (American, born Israel, 1949), Illustration for What Pete Ate From A - Z (Really!) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001) (Right) Maira Kalman (American, born Israel, 1949), "When I was seven and sitting in a tree in Henry Hudson Park," 1993

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Author-Artist Maira Kalman's 'Pursuit of Everything' Comes to Atlanta

Maira Kalman is perhaps best known by adults for the now iconic "New Yorkistan" and other covers for The New Yorker , or a dozen books including A nd...

June 19, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Leighton Rowell

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