So You Want to Write a Children's Book?

So You Want to Write a Children's Book? Get tips on the ABCs and 123s that will help you get started. Free workshop with Cheryl Willis Hudson, editorial director of Just Us Books, from 1-2 pm at the 1st Annual Westchester Multicultural Children's Book Festival. White Plains Public Library. Saturday, October 13th.

A panel discussion on the Importance and Impact of Multicultural Books, moderated by Wade Hudson (president, JUB) will follow from 2-3 pm. Panelists include Hannah Erlich (Lee & Low Books) Mark Weston, author Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars; and Torrey Maldonado, author, Secret Saturdays.

 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 14th

September 14, 1921—Constance Baker Motley, first African American to be appointed as a federal judge, is born. 

http://www.answers.com/topic/constance-baker-motley

Read more about her amazing accomplishments in Book of black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle, edited by Toyomi Igus, published by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 13th

September 12, 1885—Alain L. Locke, African-American writer, educator, philosopher and patron of the arts is born. A chief cultural architect of the Harlem Renaissance, he died in 1954.

September 13, 1881—Lewis Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

            

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 12th Mae Jemison

September 12, 1992— Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel in space.

Read more about her in Book of Black Heroes:Great Women in the Struggle, published by Just Us Books, Inc.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 11th

September 11, 1959—"Duke" Ellington won Spingarn Medal for his musical Achievements.

Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, coming from Just Us Books in October, 2012.

http://www.dukeellington.com/