Editorial: Beautiful!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds, published by Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a personal note – this one’s my fav:<\/p>\n\n\n
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2018 Illustrator Honor Books<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
“Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut” illustrated by Gordon C. James, written by Derrick Barnes, and published by Bolden, an Agate Imprint, a Denene Millner Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Editorial: OMG – this book is spectacular!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Before She Was Harriet: The Story of Harriet Tubman” illustrated by James E. Ransome, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome, and published by Holiday House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Coretta Scott King April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006 Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. — Coretta Today, we celebrate one of the greatest civil rights leaders who ever lived. While Coretta Scott King was the wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, her works, efforts, and message resonate powerfully through history. Her works continued almost four decades beyond her husband’s death. Think on what you can do to keep her legacy alive. As public librarians serving tomorrow’s leaders, it is essential that we bring Coretta’s message to our youngest library patrons. Weave her message into the fabric of our programming. Committing to the path of the children’s librarian is not an act that we can carry out once and for all, but an act that must be renewed every day. Peace, Non-Violent Social Change…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":18094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1103,210,22,47,61,38,136],"tags":[1496,1035,1494,1493,1495,117,1331,1305],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogger-jonathan-dolce","category-books-2","category-childrens-literature","category-collection-development","category-diversity","category-programming-ideas","category-storytime-2","tag-angie-thomas","tag-book-club","tag-coretta-scott-king","tag-csk","tag-kwame-alexander","tag-storytime","tag-teen","tag-tween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}