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Walter Dean Myers Award
The Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature, known as "The Walters,” was created by the American nonprofit We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) in 2014, and the inaugural award was presented in 2016. Named after young adult author Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem. A tough childho ..., the award recognizes published, diverse authors who champion marginalized voices in their stories. The awards program is managed by WNDB's co-directors Kathie Weinberg and Terry Hong. In 2018, WNDB changed the categories from a single category of young adult titles to two categories of teen and young readers. Subsequent awards include both categories. Recipients References {{Walter Dean Myers Awards established in 2014 American literary awards 21st-century lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Need Diverse Books
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is a nonprofit organization created to promote diversity of multiple forms in children's literature and publishing, which grew out of the Twitter hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks in 2014. The organization's programming includes funding grants and internships for diverse authors and people interested in publishing, a mentorship program, providing lists of book recommendations for librarians, teachers, and parents on finding books with characters from marginalized backgrounds, and publishing an anthology of short stories featuring multiple authors from diverse backgrounds. History We Need Diverse Books started on Twitter. Following the announcement of a panel of all-white, all-male children's authors at BookCon in 2014, Ellen Oh, Malinda Lo, and other authors and publishing insiders began protesting and discussing the lack of diversity and representation in the field on Twitter using the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks. The organizers asked Twitter followers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic, now living in North Carolina, United States. She is the winner of the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for ''Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre.'' She writes children's literature and some historical books, as well as poetry and commentaries. Weatherford is best known for her books ''Juneteenth Jamboree, Freedom in Congo Square,'' and ''You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen.'' Notably, Weatherford has written literary criticisms of racist representations in children's entertainment. Today, she often writes with her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, who is an illustrator and poet. Biography The music of poetry has fascinated Weatherford and motivated her literary career.Lyons, Kelly Starling (February 20, 2008)"Carole Boston Weatherford"(interview), ''The Brown Bookshelf''. Weatherford began writing in first grade by dictating poems to her mother. Her father taught printing at a local high school and published his da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pet (novel)
''Pet'' is a 2019 young adult fantasy/speculative fiction novel by Nigerian non-binary author Akwaeke Emezi. It was followed by a prequel ''Bitter'', released in 2022. Background With ''Pet'', Emezi focused on writing the book they wanted to read while they were growing up. To them, including a Black trans girl character who was supported by her parents and community — and who goes on adventures but is not in serious danger — was particularly important. Lucille, the setting of the novel, was inspired by settings that Toni Morrison used in her fiction. The town's creed ("We are each other’s harvest. We are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond") is a quote from Gwendolyn Brooks' ode to Paul Robeson. Plot Jam is a teen girl living in Lucille, a town in the US. Lucille is a type of utopia; its official historical record saw angels defeating monsters. In Lucille, there are no more monsters. Or so everyone believes. One day, Jam trips and falls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels ''Freshwater'', '' Pet,'' and their ''New York Times'' bestselling novel ''The Death of Vivek Oji''. Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBT themes. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In 2021, ''Time'' featured them as a Next Generation Leader. Early life and education Akwaeke Emezi was born in Umuahia in 1987 to an Igbo Nigerian father, and a mother who was the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Malaysia. Emezi grew up in Aba. Emezi started reading fantasy books and with their sister Yagazie used storytelling to escape the riots, dictatorship, and dangerous reality of their childhoods. Emezi was a "voracious" reader during childhood and they began writing short stories when they were five years old. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
''Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me'' is a graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. It follows Frederica "Freddy" Riley throughout her struggles with her on-again, off-again relationship with the eponymous Laura Dean. The novel was first published by First Second Books on May 7, 2019. A young adult and lesbian teen novel, ''Laura Dean'' includes themes about teenage lesbian and queer sexuality. ''Laura Dean'' received critical acclaim from book critics and media publications who lauded Tamaki's and Valero-O'Connell's work on the novel, as well as their dynamic. The novel's writing and narrative was critically praised, with many publications calling the dialogue authentic. Valero-O'Connell's artwork was also positively received, with reviews of ''Laura Dean'' praising her visual storytelling and use of color. The story also received praise for the diversity and relatability displayed by its characters. The novel went on to receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is an American illustrator and cartoonist. She is known for her work with DC Comics and BOOM! Studios. Early life Rosemary Valero-O'Connell was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Zaragoza, Spain. She graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in Comic Art in 2016. Valero began a working relationship with First Second Comics after her editor purchased a copy of a 22-page minicomic she had written over a summer from the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's festival. Career On June 15, 2015, the cover art was revealed for the first graphic novel edition of ''Steven Universe'', which Valero-O'Connell illustrated. The comic was released in December of that same year under the title "Steven Universe: Too Cool for School". In 2016, Valero worked with DC Comics and BOOM! Studios on a crossover comic issue of ''Gotham Academy'' and ''Lumberjanes'' as primary illustrator''.'' In 2016, it was announced that she had begun ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki (born 1975) is a Canadian artist and writer. She is known for her graphic novels '' Skim'', ''Emiko Superstar,'' and ''This One Summer'', and for several prose works of fiction and non-fiction."Mariko Tamaki". CBC Radio, '' The Next Chapter'', 12 November 2012. In 2016 she began writing for both Marvel and DC Comics. She has twice been named a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award. Early life Mariko Tamaki was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Japanese and Jewish descent. Mariko attended Havergal College, an all girls' secondary school. She studied English literature at McGill University, graduating in 1994. Career Tamaki has worked as a writer and performance artist in Toronto, including with Keith Cole's Cheap Queers and in the performance group Pretty Porky & Pissed Off with Joanne Huffa, Allyson Mitchell, Abi Slone, Tracy Tidgwell and Zoe Whittall. Tamaki published the novel ''Cover Me'' in 2000. It is a "poignant story about an adolescent coping with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Diary
''The Night Diary'' is a young adult novel written by American writer Veera Hiranandani and published by Penguin Random House in 2018. It is set in 1947, during the months before and after the independence of India and subsequent division with Pakistan, and is written as diary entries from the perspective of Nisha, a girl who has just celebrated her twelfth birthday along with her twin brother, Amil. Author Veera Hiranandani was raised in a small town in Connecticut. Her mother is Jewish-American and her father comes from a Hindu family in India. Hiranandani was raised in both cultures. She has a Master's of Fine Arts in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and spent six years as a book editor. She now teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with her family. She is working on her next novel. Plot summary ''The Night Diary'' is set around this time of partition and separated into two different countries. The stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veera Hiranandani
Veera Hiranandani is an American writer of children's books. Her 2018 novel, ''The Night Diary,'' received a Newbery Honor in 2019. Her novel ''How to Find What You're Not Looking For'' won the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Life and work Hiranandani, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a father who was originally from India, was raised in Connecticut. She attended George Washington University, and later studied fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first book, ''The Whole Story of Half a Girl'', was published in 2012. It would become a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asian Book Award Finalist Hiranandani's next novel, ''The Night Diary'', is set against the background of the 1947 Partition of India. She stated that this book was partly inspired by the experiences of her father, who was nine at the time of the Partition, and fled his home with his family. The book was named one of two Newbery Honor titles in 2019. Hiranandani lives and works in New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American bestselling novelist and educator. She is the author of several books for children including the ''New York Times'' bestsellers ''Black Brother, Black Brother'' and ''Ghost Boys,'' which has garnered over 50 awards and honors including The Walter Award, the Indies Choice/EB White Read-Aloud Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Readers. Rhodes is also the author of ''Paradise on Fire'' (winner of the Green Earth Book Award), ''Towers Falling'' and the celebrated Louisiana Girls Trilogy, which includes ''Ninth Ward'', winner of a Coretta Scott King Honor Award, ''Sugar,'' and ''Bayou Magic.'' Her novel ''Bayou Magic'' is featured in the third season of Apple TV+'s Emmy award-winning series Ghostwriter. Her latest novel for young readers, ''Treasure Island: Runaway Gold,'' releases in October 2023. Rhodes has written six adult novels: ''Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Astonishing Color Of After
''The Astonishing Color of After'' is a young adult novel by Emily X.R. Pan, published March 20, 2018 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The novel addresses topics including suicide and mental health through the story of a biracial teenager, Leigh, in search of her mother, whom Leigh believes has transformed into a red bird following her suicide. She follows the bird to Taiwan, her mother’s birthplace, where she meets her grandparents for the first time and tries to learn what the bird is trying to teach her before the end of the traditional Ghost Month. Throughout the story, Leigh uses colors to describe emotions and her art as a way to process her grief. Meanwhile, she is also in conflict with her father, who does not believe she is handling her grief well and also thinks she should be pursuing something more practical than art. ''The Astonishing Color of After''’s Asian-American cultural representation, as well as depiction of topics such as mental health and teen sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily X
Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily'' * "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song on Dave Koz's album ''Dave Koz'' * "Emily" (Bowling for Soup song), a 2003 song on Bowling for Soup's album ''Drunk Enough to Dance'' * "Emily" (2009), song on Clan of Xymox's album ''In Love We Trust'' * "Emily" (2019), song on Tourist's album ''Everyday'' * "Emily", song on Adam Green's album ''Gemstones'' * "Emily", song on Alice in Videoland's album ''Outrageous!'' * "Emily", song on Elton John's album '' The One'' * "Emily", song on Asian versions of Feeder's album ''Comfort in Sound'' * "Emily", song on From First to Last's album ''Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount'' * "Emily", song on Kelly Jones' album ''Only the Names Have Been Changed'' * "Emily", song on Joanna Newsom's album '' Ys'' * "Emily", song on Manic Street Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |