News From WINC
WINC members always have something cooking, whether it's new
books or new honors, new workshops or upcoming appearances. Check
here often.
New Honors
See and learn all about Eleanora Tate's creative workspace and process on Jennifer Bertman's From the Mixed Up Files blog.
The Bake Shop Ghost, by WINC's Jackie Ogburn, is screening at the Cannes Film Festival in the Emerging Film-maker Showcase at the American Pavillion. See the trailer here. Lorette Bayle directed this short film about a haunted bake shop which stars Kathryn Joosten and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Frances O'Roark Dowell's newest novel, Falling In, received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Booklist, plus advance praise from Elizabeth Bird in her SLJ Fuse #8 blog: 'If every librarian preview could contain the words "a new Frances O'Roark Dowell novel" in it somewhere, I could die a happy woman.'
Clay Carmichael 's novel Wild Things was named a 2010 Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, a 2010 ALA Notable Children's Book, an NCTE Notable Children's Book, and a Kirkus Best Children's Book of the Year. Now in its fifth printing,Wild Things won a starred review from Kirkus, the NC Juvenile Literature Award and nominations for ALA's 2010 Amelia Bloomer List and Best Books for Young Adults among other honors.
Frances O'Roark Dowell's novel, The Kind of Friends We Used To Be was awarded a Blue Ribbon by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. "This sequel to The Secret Language of Girls sees Kate and Marylin starting their seventh-grade year and beginning to develop their own identities in a story remarkable for its blend of accessibility and sympathetic perception."
WINC very proudly welcomes new members Alan Gratz, Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Kelly Starling Lyons, Eleanora E.Tate and Allan Wolf. Kelly and Eleanora were recently featured in SLJ's blog, Writers Against Racism. Congrats to Allan and his verse novel Zane's Trace, recent recipient of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award.
Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday was named a Bank Street College 2009 Best Children's Book of the Year and earned a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award at MW ALA. Sean Qualls won a CSK Illustrator Honor Award for illustrating Carole's John Was a Jazz Giant. Watch her book trailer for Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion.
WINC's Frances O'Roark Dowell won a 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for her novel, Shooting the Moon. Watch Fran's acceptance speech here. Or listen here.
Donna Washington has released her sixth CD, Growing Up Army. Her CD Angels' Laughter won a 2007 Storytelling World Gold Award and a 2007 iParenting Media Best Product Award, and her CD Troubling Trouble won a 2007 Parents Choice Gold Award.
Carole Boston
Weatherford's young adult debut, Becoming Billie Holiday was a Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Visit the website here and watch the YouTube video here.
Carole's I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer won a Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice. Her Birmingham, 1963 has received several honors: the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Jefferson Cup, the Jane Addams Children's Literature Award Honor, and The Lion and the Unicorn Honor for Excellence in North American Poetry.
Weatherford's Moses: When Harriet Tubman
Led Her People to Freedom, was a 2007 Caldecott Honor book. Moses also earned starred reviews
in Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and
Kirkus Reviews, and was a Booksense winter "Top Ten"
title, Best Book of the Year School Library Journal, Horn Book
Fanfare, and a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue
Ribbon.
Eileen Heyes is a United Artists
Showcase presenter.
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New Books
Fall 2010
Little Rabbit's Kwanzaa by Donna Washington
When Molly Was a Harvey Girl by Frances M. Wood
Spring 2010
Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Oprah: The Little Speaker by Carole Boston Weatherford
Spring 2009
The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz
The Kinds of Friends We Used To Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights by Carole Boston Weatherford
Fall 2008
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
Spring-Summer 2008
Black Pearls, a Faerie Strand by Louise Hawes
Fall 2007
Wolf Song written by Mary Bevis, illustrated by WINC emerita Consie Powell
Spring-Summer 2006
Anteaters Don't Dream by Louise Hawes
A Day in the Salt Marsh written by Kevin Kurtz, illustrated by WINC emerita Consie Powell
Fall 2006
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford
Dear Mr. Rosenwald by Carole
Boston Weatherford
A Girl Called Boy by Belinda
Hurmance is out in a new paperback editon.
Spring-Summer 2006
Muti's Necklace by Louise
Hawes
Baby Bear Isn't Hungry written by Michael Elsohn Ross, illustrated by WINC emerita Consie Powell
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