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By: Shadra Strickland,
on 4/6/2011
Hurrah! A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN has been named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year under the historical fiction category. Congrats to Renée Watson and the Random House team!
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By: Melissa Walker,
on 11/2/2010
Rgz SALON member Lyn Miller-Lachmann has been the Editor-in-Chief of MultiCultural Review; the author of the award-winning multicultural bibliography Our Family, Our Friends, Our World; the editor of Once Upon a Cuento, a collection of short stories by Latino authors; and most recently, the author of Gringolandia, a young adult novel about a refugee family living with the aftermath of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. The book has now sold out half of its second print run and is available for order! (Don't forget to read the fascinating Cover Story for Gringolandia.)
We're honored to have Lyn here as part of the rgz SALON, a feature where four of the top kidlit experts clue us in to the best YA novels they've read recently. Today, she reviews What Momma Left Me by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury, 2010).
By: Shadra Strickland,
on 10/27/2010
Awwwww snap! Guess who’s coming to New York next month. C’est moi! On November 4 from 5:30-7:30PM, Renée and I will be reading from our books, A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN, and WHAT MOMMA LEFT ME at Bank Street Book Store. I will also talk a bit about my illustration process and share sketches and inspiration from the book.
While in NY I will also get to check out the DRAWN IN BROOKLYN exhibition and be dazzled and inspired by many of my favorite illustrators and friends.
Somebody save me a seat at Enids for brunch! Fried cheese grits here I come!!!
By: L. M. Baldwin,
on 9/28/2010
Birth date: July 29, 1978 Location: Paterson, NJ (But I grew up in Portland, Oregon) Website/blog: http://www.reneewatson.net/ Genre: Children’s and Young Adult Literature WiP or most recently published work: Recently Published: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and What Momma Left Me Writing credits: Picture Book: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (Random House, June 2010)
Last week Renée Watson visited Atlanta to appear and sign at the Decatur Book Festival. While she was here we teamed up to conduct a two day writing and art workshop with students at Frederick Douglass High School (my alma mater). The students wrote poems modeled after Renée’s poem, “Where I’m From”, using an “Anaphora” – a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. I worked with students on making images to support their art. Here are a few samples from the two days: I was so encouraged to see how seriously the students took the assignment and how personal the poems were. The next time we conduct the workshop, I think we will work in groups on the images or make the pictures much smaller. The students only had about half an hour to draw each day which is hardly any time at all to make finished illustrations. Overall though, I think they really understood the connection between words and pictures and really using images to support and enhance the meaning behind the text rather than just redraw what’s already been written. Renée and I had a great time sharing our work with the students. We also snuck in a book signing during her visit to Atlanta. Special thanks goes out to the Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore for letting us use the facilities.
Renée Watson, author of my latest book, A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN is hosting a workshop for teachers on May 24th at DreamYard Project in the Bronx. It will be a great opportunity for teachers to learn how to get and use the book in their classrooms. Please RSVP to Ellen Hagan at [email protected]. Caroline Kennedy has given us a wonderful quote for the back cover of the book and has really gotten behind the project. She purchased 200 advanced copies and donated them at a fundraiser for DreamYard. The book pubs in less than a month! I am on pins and needles. Book launch anyone? 
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That’s awesome, don’t worry the book is going to be great. I see more awards and honors ahead. I’ll congratulate you in advance
Thanks London~