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Jorge Argueta (born in El Salvador and a Pipil Nahua) [1] is a Salvadoran award-winning poet and author of many highly acclaimed bilingual children's books and short stories, covering themes related to Latino culture and traditions, nature, and the immigrant experience.
Barbara Wersba (b. 1932) born in San Francisco, California and raised in New York City during her teen years, has published nine children's books including two books of children's poetry. [ 35 ] Charles Lamb (1775–1834), best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary ...
By the 1980s, The Council on Interracial Books for Children found that non-Latino authors, who wrote most Chicano books at the time, upheld white racial biases in their books [7] and usually exoticized Latin America. [8] After this report, more Latino authors started to emerge, coinciding with a rise in the Latino population in the United States.
Mango, Abuela, and Me is a 2015 children's book written by Meg Medina and illustrated by Angela Dominguez. It was first published on August 25, 2015 through Candlewick Press and was a 2016 Belpré Honor Book. [1] While writing the book Medina drew upon her experiences growing up with her grandmother Abuela Bena. [2]
The Detroit Free Press sponsored an annual book fair. In November 1969, Dr. Donald Bissett of Wayne State's Children's Literature Center, coordinated a display of 40+ children's books featuring African Americans at the fair. The display was called "The Darker Brother Collection" after the Langston Hughes poem, I, Too. [8]
Courtesy of Netflix. Director: Glen Keane Cast: Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho Rating: PG Run time: 95 minutes Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 82%; IMDb 6.3/10 Genre: Musical Fantasy ...
Campbell is the author of Songs in Their Heads (2010, 2nd edition), Musician and Teacher: Orientation to Music Education (2008), Tunes and Grooves in Music Education (2008), Teaching Music Globally (2004) (and co-editor of Oxford's Global Music Series), Lessons from the World (1991/2001), Music in Cultural Context (1996), a musical parenting manual called I Can Play It (2015), co-author of ...
The book is used in school classrooms and has been adapted as a play under its original title. Yep and Dragonwings won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. [1] It had been a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal.