Source: LINKcat
Ann Grifalconi, Whose Children’s Books Bridged Cultures, Dies at 90. (The New York Times, 3/4/2020)
Ms. Grifalconi, who was white, often based her books on the traditions and experiences of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, especially Africans and African-Americans. She said a trip to a remote hamlet in Cameroon had inspired her to write and illustrate “The Village of Round and Square Houses” (1986, Caldecott Honor Book in 1987), which recounts a local folk tale describing how women there came to live in round houses and men in square ones after a volcanic eruption.
LINKcat public libraries
Related posts:
2020Clive Cussler. (2/29/2020)
Charlers Portis. (2/19/2020)
A, E, Hotchner. (2/18/2020)
Roger Kahn. (2/15/2020)
George Steiner. (2/6/2020)
Mary Higgins Clark. (2/4/2020)
John Rothchild. (1/22/2020)
Sylvia Jukes Morris. (1/20/2020)
Johanna Lindsey. (1/15/2020)
Elizabeth Wurtzel. (1/11/2020)
2019
Robert K. Massie. (12/4/2019)
John Simon. (12/1/2019)
James I. Robertson. (11/20/2019)
Stephen Dixon. (11/12/2019)
Ernest J. Gaines. (11/8/2019)
Kate Braverman. (10/28/2019)
Sol Stein. (9/30/2019)
Anne Rivers Siddons. (9/19/2019)
Paule Marshall. (8/27/2019)
Toni Morrison. (8/12/2019)
Martin Mayer. (8/3/2019)
Wright Morris. (7/25/2019)
Judith Krantz. (6/27/2019)
Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970. (6/18/2019)
Anthony Price. (6/17/2019)
Herman Wouk. (5/20/2019)
Warren Adler. (4/23/2019)
Dan Jenkins. (3/10/2019)
2018
Neal Thompson. (6/17/2018)
Barbara Kafka. (6/8/2018)
Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries? (6/2/2018)
2017
Aline Countess of Romanones. (12/17/2017)
Kit Reed. (10/1/2017)
Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library. (9/8/2017)
2016
E. M. Nathanson. (4/10/2016)
2015
Gunter Grass (1927-2015). (4/15/2015)
2014
Thomas Berger (1924-2014). (7/23/2014)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) (4/8/2014)
2013
Barbara Branden. (12/26/2013)
No comments:
Post a Comment