Huge thanks to all my PBB colleagues and to you, dear readers, for your kind words of congratulations! I can’t believe that it’s been a month since the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced. It feels like yesterday. It also feels like 4 months, not 4 weeks. I guess that’s …
At the ALA conference in Atlanta last week, the winner of the 2017 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children was RADIANT CHILD (written and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe.) And what a radiant book it is!
Personification is the commonly used literary device of attaching human traits and characteristics to animals or inanimate objects. I think of personification similar to the way we think about rhyming – tricky to do well, but so wonderful when it works. Since everyday objects are not often seen as sentient or …