Kwame Alexander

United States

Father of 2 Headstrong Girls. #1 NY Times Bestselling Author. Emmy Award-Winning Producer. The Crossover, Why Fathers Cry at Night, An American Story, et al.

Featured in: Favicon

cnn.com

nytimes.com Favicon

yahoo.com (+1) Favicon

huffpost.com Favicon

msn.com

latimes.com Favicon

npr.org

pbs.org

chicagotribune.com Favicon

barnesandnoble.com + 92 more

Articles

Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Joyce Sidman |Kwame Alexander |Paul Fleischman |Brie Spangler

In 16 wonderfully imaginative letter poems, Newbery Honoree Sidman imagines both sides of typewritten correspondences between unlikely pen-pal pairs, including a school and one of its bricks, a coat and a button, and a child and their toes.
Top 22 Books to Read (and Recommend) This Summer | NoveList

1 month ago | ebsco.com | Ron Chernow |Kwame Alexander |Jerry Craft |Joanna Ho

It's officially summer in North America... a season that readers look forward to all year. Whether summer at your library means shifting into high gear or relishing a brief moment of cruise control, there will always be readers who want your up-to-date book recommendations. To help you keep those recommendations fresh and fun, we’ve rounded up 22 standout titles featured in this summer’s NextReads newsletters, broken into categories.
In 'J Vs. K,' best-selling authors Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft throw down and collaborate

1 month ago | wglt.org | Jerry Craft |Kwame Alexander

By Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander's new book " J Vs. K " centers around two kids, one an artist, the other an author, who first compete then collaborate in their school's storytelling contest. Alexander and Craft talk about the book and their collaboration with host Robin Young. By Jerry Craft and Kwame AlexanderText copyright © 2025 by KA Productions, LLC, and Jerry Craft. Illustration copyright © 2025 by Jerry Craft. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2025 WBUR
In 'J Vs. K,' best-selling authors Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft throw down and collaborate

1 month ago | news.wjct.org | Jerry Craft |Kwame Alexander

By Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander's new book " J Vs. K " centers around two kids, one an artist, the other an author, who first compete then collaborate in their school's storytelling contest. Alexander and Craft talk about the book and their collaboration with host Robin Young. By Jerry Craft and Kwame AlexanderText copyright © 2025 by KA Productions, LLC, and Jerry Craft. Illustration copyright © 2025 by Jerry Craft. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2025 WBUR
Sonderbooks Book Review of

2 months ago | sonderbooks.com | Kwame Alexander

Review posted April 11, 2025. Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 397 pages. Review written January 31, 2023, based on an advance reader copy I got at ALA Annual Conference. Starred Review Poet and Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander tackles a historical novel-in-verse with this book. He takes us into the life of Offin, a kid from the 1860 Asante Kingdom, in the part of West Africa now known as Ghana. We get pulled into Offin's life and family. We hear stories from his grandfather, Nana Mosi.
J vs. K

Feb 27, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Jerry Craft |Kwame Alexander |James Patterson |Deanna Nikaido

Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft, illus. by Jerry Craft. Little, Brown, $16.99 hardcover (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-58268-1; $10.99 paper ISBN 978-0-316-59710-4Alexander (How Sweet the Sound) and Craft (School Trip) emphasize the importance of nurturing creative expression and healthy competition in this meta illustrated collaboration.
HOW SWEET THE SOUND by Kwame Alexander Read by Karen Murray | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

Feb 7, 2025 | audiofilemagazine.com | Kwame Alexander

by | Read by Karen Murray Every second of this dynamic production--from the bouncing notes of the opening theme to the last snapped finger--creates a musical soundscape. Narrator Karen Murray's sweet and steady tones guide the listener through a history of Black music told in rolling lines of poetry. Murray moves seamlessly from the talking drums of Africa through the origins of the blues, jazz, funk, and soul, and forward to the birth of hip-hop and rap, with many stops in between.
The 116 Best Kids Books of All Time

Jan 16, 2025 | parade.com | Frances Hodgson Burnett |Michael Bond |Victoria Jamieson |Kwame Alexander

Here are Parade’s 116 Best Kids books of all time, according to indie booksellers from across the country; acclaimed authors like Brian Selznick, Rita Williams-Garcia, Dav Pilkey, Katherine Paterson, M.T. Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Lemony Snicket, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeff Kinney and more; and the team at Parade.
Caboose

Nov 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Travis Jonker |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Narrator Hippo loves being first in line among all the anthropomorphized animal students at school—Jonker (Just One Flake) writes, “I can make everyone go fast, I can make everyone go slow. I can suddenly stop and make everyone crash.
Let’s Be Bees

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Shawn Harris |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Shawn Harris. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5709-0In this sound-centric account of a riotous readaloud session from Caldecott Honoree Harris, a bearded caregiver in a blue top holds one side of a book while a child in a yellow shirt grasps the other. “Let’s be bees,” reads text on the first spread’s verso.