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2 months 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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Mar 17, 2025 | 
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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Mar 11, 2025 | 
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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Oct 5, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Iyana Jones |Karida Brown
On October 10, Chronicle Books will release married collaborators Karida Brown and Charly Palmer’s The New Brownies’ Book, a contemporary take on W.E.B. Du Bois’s influential monthly children’s magazine, The Brownies’ Book. The New Brownies’ Book is an anthology showcasing the power of community and the foundations of the Black family via drawings, poetry, short stories, and other artistic formats.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Basic, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-1-541-60199-4Historian Ogbar (Hip Hop Revolution) presents an illuminating and thought-provoking history of Atlanta from the 19th century to the present.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Daniel Schulman. Knopf, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-451-49354-5Biographer Schulman (Sons of Wichita) delivers an ambitious and captivating group portrait of Jewish financial dynasties “with profound legacies” in the U.S. from the 1830s to the present.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Matthew Guariglia. Duke Univ, $27.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4780-2540-5This scrupulous debut from historian and policy analyst Guariglia traces “how race shaped modern policing and how, in turn, modern policing helped to define and redefine racial boundaries in New York.” Focusing on the period between the New York City Police Department’s founding in 1845 and WWII, Guariglia contends that the NYPD drew on “colonial methods” from abroad to police the city’s growing immigrant population.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Laurence Leamer |Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown
Laurence Leamer. Putnam, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-54297-2Biographer Leamer (Capote’s Women) serves up a breezy and gossip-filled group biography of Alfred Hitchcock’s blonde leading ladies.
