
Karida Brown
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1 month ago |
hbook.com | Nancy Upper |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown
Special Issue: Perception and RealityOriginal cover art by Edel Rodriguez. Cathryn M. Mercier on the “playground” of metafiction in picture books. A Publisher’s Perspective: Charlesbridge editor Karen Boss reflects on the “two-brained intersection” between creativity and commerce.
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2 months ago |
hbook.com | Shifa Safadi |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown
My name is Shifa,spelled S-h-i-f-a,for most of my life pronounced shee-fa,sometimes said Shiff-a,but really in Arabic it’s she-faa’ with an emphasisat the endlike a silent t...
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2 months ago |
hbook.com | Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown |Charly Palmer
I first met Cuban-born translator Emily Carrero Mustelier through poet and translator Alexis Romay. I was working on my middle-grade novel Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene, a book about a girl whose family danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alexis read a draft of the book and immediately put me in touch with Emily, who had studied at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet in Cuba as a child.
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2 months ago |
hbook.com | Betsy Groban |Karida Brown |Charly Palmer |Carole Weatherford
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three dozen archives! All his work paid off handsomely.
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May 28, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | Karida Brown
Karida L. Brown is a professor of sociology at Emory University and the author of “Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia.”As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education this month, let us not forget: It was Black children who did the work of desegregating our schools. Like soldiers conscripted onto a battlefield, these kids were thrust onto the front lines of the American struggle to live up to our nation’s founding creed.
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