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That is my dream! : a picture book of Langston Hughes's \Dream Variation\
\"Dream Variation,\" one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems--about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice--is now a picture book illustrated by Daniel Miyares, in which an African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun.
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Radical Children’s Literature for Adults and The Inner City Mother Goose
This article explores the radical possibilities of children’s literature for adults, using as a case study The Inner City Mother Goose, a book of poetry for adults written by Eve Merriam and published, with “visuals” by Lawrence Ratzkin, in 1969. As one of the most frequently banned books of the 1970s, a period in which children’s literature and childhood itself saw dramatic changes, The Inner City Mother Goose is a good representative of the children’s book for adults, suggesting the ways in which parody, satire, and formal conventions of genres typically associated with children’s reading (nursery rhymes, abecedaries, board books, picture books, etc.) can function as aesthetic and formal cues that call the boundaries of adulthood and childhood into question to humorous but also, at times, politically radical effect. In the slippage between audiences, especially as children mischievously embrace texts that invite young people in while implicitly or explicitly excluding them, children not only gain access to ostensibly forbidden knowledge but also gain insight into adult hypocrisy. Most importantly, they gain an incentive to act independently and autonomously so as to eliminate contradictions between the “truths” and values they have been taught and those they have discovered by reading a children’s book that was ostensibly not intended for children.
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Free's excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who's homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
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Ode to grapefruit : how James Earl Jones found his voice
Before legendary actor James Earl Jones was recognized for his memorable, smooth voice, he was just James -- a stutterer who stopped speaking for eight years as a child...and ultimately found his voice through poetry.
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Headline: OPINION; READING IS A NECESSARY STEP TO RISING FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN
The Urban League has teamed up with Scholastic Inc., a prolific children's book publisher, and State Farm Insurance Companies Inc. to create an army of strong, young African-American readers. The first issue of Read and Rise opens, for example, with a poem that addresses all the shades and colors that black children come in - from the deep, dark chocolate of Dayvon to the creamy vanilla of several of my young cousins who are of mixed parentage - and closes with an exercise titled, My Turn:
Newspaper Article
EDUCATION PLAYS BIG ROLE AT KWANZAA EXPO
Better Family Life, a nonprofit St. Louis organization based on the seven principles of Kwanzaa, is sponsoring the expo from Friday through Sunday at America's Center. Kwanzaa principles will be evident throughout the expo. About 25,000 attended last year's summit. \"The educational summit is built on the premise that academic curricula can be developed with a cultural focus - in particular can be developed to highlight the principles of the Kwanzaa holiday,\" [DeBorah D. Ahmed] said. They also learn ways to celebrate Kwanzaa, make personal choices and prepare for college. The teen summit is based on the principle of kujichagulia, or self-determination. Among the topics will be the dangers of peer pressure and media influences and how to make the right choices.
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