By: Kyra,
on 12/2/2007
If you have a moment, view the Slate online magazine slide show on the history of American children's book illustrations, based on Timothy G. Young's book, Drawn To Enchant. The slide show does mention African American illustrators and books, including the 1982 book, Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margot Zemach. Thanks to the blog 100 Scope Notes for the lead!
By: Mitali Perkins,
on 11/14/2007
If you're in the Boston area, I'm delighted (as the author of Bamboo People, a forthcoming novel featuring a child soldier) to invite you and anybody else you want to bring along to an awareness-raising event at my church this Sunday evening in Newton, Massachusetts:
By: Mitali Perkins,
on 9/26/2007
One of my all-time heroes, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy leader of Burma, is still under house arrest in Rangoon where the military government is shooting at the marching monks parading past her house. A significant, scary number of those soldiers and monks are teenagers, one of the reasons I'm writing The Bamboo People. Listen to this quote from one of this amazing lady's speeches:
It is not the prerogative of men alone to bring light to the world: women with their capacity for compassion and self-sacrifice, their courage and perseverance, have done much to dissipate the darkness of intolerance and hate, suffering and despair.
Free Burma! Let the Lady bring the light. Here's what we can do. Listen to Jim Carrey explain why:
By: Mitali Perkins,
on 5/28/2007
My forthcoming novel from Charlesbridge, The Bamboo People, features a fifteen-year old Burmese soldier who's forced to fight against his will. The United States provides military assistance to the other eight countries that reportedly use children to fight in their armies:
Your book BAMBOO PEOPLE sounds wonderful. Just an observation about the growing literature on child soldiers, including ONE DAY THE SOLDIERS CAME, by Charles London.