For Black History Month, Scholastic School Journal asked twenty of the best children's book authors to write a few words on a kids' book about the black experience "that they truly loved." The result is wonderful. I nominate Langston Hughes's autobiographical The Big Sea. Though technically not a children's book, it is so accessible that older kids can easily read it, and it's profoundly moving.
Kids can read books about the black experience, and many other books, on e-readers. As more and more young people get e-readers, children's e-book sales are rising, as reported in the New York Times.
The American Library Association's annual awards for 2011 include the prestigious Newbery, which went to Clare Vanderpool's Moon Over Manifest.
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