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The Only Black Girls in Town is a Junior Library Guild book. [9] In 2021, the Association for Library Service to Children included the novel on their list of Notable Children's Books. [10] In 2023, it was nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. [11]
Just Us Books, a publishing house focused on African American children and young adult books, is founded by Wade and Cheryl Hudson. 1991. Tom Low and Philip Lee co-found Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. 1992. The African American Children's Book Fair started in Philadelphia by Vanesse Lloyd ...
Derrick Barnes is an American author. He is known for writing several popular series of children's books and is a former staff writer for Hallmark greeting cards. In 2018 Barnes received several awards that include the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for his 2017 book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut.
Here are their best bets for young adult, middle grade and picture books for 2023. Coming next week: CADL's best bets for adult fiction and nonfiction. Young Adult
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun is a 2022 middle grade science fiction novel by British-Nigerian writer, journalist and hair care educator Tọlá Okogwu. This is Okogwu's debut novel, and it introduces readers to Onyeka, a British-Nigerian girl who discovers her hair has a psychokinetic ability and goes to an elite school in Nigeria where people like her are trained to save the country.
She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, where she majored in History, with a concentration on Africa and the Middle East. [1] Magoon has a master of fine arts degree in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts , which she was able to study via a low-residency program for children's writers. [ 1 ]
Atinuke is the author of over 20 children's books based on her life in Nigeria and the traditional stories. Most recently she published a non-fiction children's book about the 55 countries of Africa. Her book "Baby Goes To Market" is published in the US and UK as well as in French and Japanese. [7]
Before the Ever After received starred reviews from Kirkus, [1] Booklist, [2] School Library Journal, [3] Horn Book, [4] Publishers Weekly, [5] and Shelf Awareness, [6] as well as a positive review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. [7] The 2020, Booklist and Kirkus named Before the Ever After one of the best books of the year.