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Eloise Greenfield in 2018. Eloise Greenfield (May 17, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American children's book and biography author and poet famous for her descriptive, rhythmic style and positive portrayal of the African-American experience.
Mary White Ovington, a white co-founder of the NAACP, publishes Hazel [4], a novel about a middle-class Black child. 1919. Children's Book Week is established in the United States. [5] 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
Ashley Frederick Bryan (July 13, 1923 – February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 [ 1 ] and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American ...
Best Word Book Ever; Better Known as Johnny Appleseed; The Big Honey Hunt; The Big Tree of Bunlahy; Bink & Gollie; Birthdays of Freedom; Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues; Black Hands, White Sails; Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America; The Blue and the Gray (picture book) The Blueberry Pie Elf; Bomb (book) BooClips; The ...
The African American Children’s Book Fair, one of the nation’s oldest and largest Black children’s book fairs will not be... View Article The post African American Children’s Book Fair to ...
The Black Cauldron (novel) Black Fox of Lorne; The Black Reckoning; The Black Stallion; Bloody Jack (novel) Bloomability; The Blue Cat of Castle Town; The Blue Man; Blue Willow; The Bluebird Books; The Bomb (Taylor novel) The Book of Three; Borgel; Boston Jane; The Boxcar Children; Boy of the South Seas; The Boy Spies of Philadelphia; The Boy ...
Sharon Dennis Wyeth is an American poet [1] and author of numerous children's books. [2] She is best known for Evette: The River and Me, which tells the story of a young girl, Evette, who is inspired to clean up the polluted tributary her grandmother once swam in. Wyeth's fiction was the basis for the first biracial American Girl doll, part of its World By Us collection. [3]
For her 1982 novel Marked by Fire, Thomas won a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) [2] [a] and an American Book Award.Thomas has been one of three to five finalists for the Coretta Scott King Award thrice, in 1984 for Bright Shadow, in 1994 for Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, and in 2009 for The Blacker the Berry.