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William Wallace (August 1, 1947 – January 30, 2012) was an American teacher and later an author of children's books. He started writing to quiet down his fourth grade students, who loved his stories and encouraged him to make "real" books.
Letts was born as Billie Dean Gipson [1] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Virginia M. (née Barnes), a secretary, and William C. Gipson. [2] She married Dennis Letts, a professor and actor, in 1958. [1] The couple had three children: Dana, Tracy (a playwright), and Shawn (a jazz musician/composer).
Mary White Ovington, a white co-founder of the NAACP, publishes Hazel [3], a novel about a middle-class Black child. 1919. Children's Book Week is established in the United States. [4] Louise Seaman Bechtel is hired by Macmillan as the first children's book editor in the first US department devoted solely to publishing children's books. 1920
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Angela Johnson (born June 18, 1961) is an American writer of children's books and poetry, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989.Her children's picture books are simple yet poetic stories about African-American families, friendships, and common childhood experiences such as moving.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Children's books set in Oklahoma" The following 11 pages ...
Berney is Oklahoma’s finest contemporary novelist; this is his best. “Days of Sand: A Graphic Novel” by Aimee de Jongh. Visually stunning depiction of the Dust Bowl.
As an adult, she read the book Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth, which was the first time she had seen an African-American girl featured on the cover of a picture book. This inspired her to start writing fiction books for children that would feature African-American lead characters. [1] Lyons makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina. [2]