I’m shaping a new program I offer in schools and communities. Through documentary photos, oral history of refugees, reports of on-the-scene war correspondents, and readings from The Good Braider, I takes listeners on the journey of children and their families out of war in South Sudan. The program is called ”Children of War” & captures the larger…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Librarians on Verse Novels
For a School Library Journal article, I interviewed many librarians about their recommendations of verse novels to kids and teens in their libraries. And I interviewed many writers about their process in writing verse novels. A new direction was given to the article by SLJ and a lot of these wonderful speakers are not…