#Jan Spivey Gilchrist

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New Picture Book Release 

 A Voice as Soft as a Honey Bee's Flutter: Inspired by Psalm 46

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Discovery House, 2019

As our children grow, we long for them to have a relationship with God. But teaching them to know and hear His “still small voice” can be challenging. In A Voice as Soft as a Honey Bee’s Flutter, parents and young readers alike will journey through the story of a young boy who learns to hear God’s voice through everyday circumstances. Children will be encouraged to know God and hear His voice through this inspirational story based on Psalm 46. This book created by internationally award-winning illustrator and author Jan Spivey Gilchrist is sure to empower parents to continue the conversation about knowing God in a fun and easy-to-understand way.

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The Great Migration: Journey to the North, by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist is now available in paperback

We just recently learned that THE GREAT MIGRATION: JOURNEY TO THE NORTH (HarperCollins), written by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, is now available from HarperCollins in paperback. Ms. Greenfield won the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor for this book and was also the recipient of the 2018 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Great Migration was lauded by reviewers. The Booklist starred review described it as "a powerful, haunting view of a pivotal moment in U.S. history..." Publishers Weekly called it "an evocative portrait of African-Americans who moved North during the Great Migration between 1915 and 1930 to escape Ku Klux Klan-fueled racism and to secure better lives…" and School Library Journal felt it to be  "a solid choice for independent reading and for reading aloud."

We're sure that teachers, librarians, and parents will be delighted that this well-loved book will now be available in paperback.  Feel free to contact Balkin Buddies if you have any questions.

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New & Notable

The Thumbtack Dancer By Leslie Tyron, Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

A sweet story about one talented and creative go-getter. Gus is a most promising, most energetic and most talented young dancer who figures out how to make enough money to upgrade his tip-a-tap thumbtack sneakers to a new pair of real tap shoes that could slap-a-dee-dap, slap-a-dee-dap on a real dance floor. He uses his public street dancing and thumbtack shoes to tap his way down the sidewalk and right up to the big red door of the dance studio. 

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Description

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators.

For centuries, accomplished women--of all races--have fallen out of the historical records. The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little known, especially as compared to their male counterparts.

In this poetry collection, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses The Golden Shovel poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of these groundbreaking women-and to introduce readers to their work.

Each poem is paired with one-of-a-kind art from today's most exciting female African-American illustrators, including: Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Cozbi Cabrera, Pat Cummings, Nina Crews, Laura Freeman, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, April Harrison, Ekua Holmes, Keisha Morrison, Daria Peoples-Riley, Andrea Pippins, Shadra Strickland, and Elizabeth Zunon.

Legacy also includes a foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author's note, and poet biographies, which make this a wonderful resource and a book to cherish.

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Honey, I love By Eloise Greenfield,

Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)

Format 32 pages Published January 1, 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 9780060091248 (ISBN10: 006009124)

Taking the voice from the characters love of her southern cousins voice, reading this book in a southern accent make the kindergarteners connect immediately with the book. With the adult in the room just as captivated as the kids. They were excited with each reveal and moment described in the book. Finding the joy the author expresses, with her southern appeal and charms. Her turn of phrase opened their eyes to phraseology from outside their experience and connected immediately with them.

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I'm sad, scared and stressed out, so I'm comforting myself with a childhood memory. I received a bookmark with a poem on it as a gift when I was a small child, and I read it so many times I memorized it without meaning to. It became one of my favorites. This poem was first published as a Children's Book Council bookmark in 1979.

Books by Eloise Greenfield

I've got Books on the bunk bed Books on the chair Books on the couch And every old where

But I want more books I just can't get enough I want more books about All kinds of stuff, like   Jackie's troubles   Raymond's joys   Rabbits, kangaroos   Girls and boys   Mountains, valleys   Winter, spring   Campfires, vampires   Every old thing

I want to Lie down on my bunk bed Lean back in my chair Curl up on the couch And every old where And  read   more    books!

You can find this poem in Eloise Greenfield's anthology In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. It was published in 2004, and the ISBN is 0060289945.

image info

poster from the second Children's Book Week in 1920 uploaded by the Boston Public Library on Flickr - via Creative Commons License - original image page here

links for further reading

Eloise Greenfield's page on the HarperCollins website is here.

The Children's Book Council site is here.

The Children's Book Week site is here.

Children's Book week begins on the last Monday in April. Next year (2019) will be the 100th anniversary of the first Children's Book Week, and the celebration will be held April 29 - May 5, 2019.

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cross-posted on my main blog here

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Beautiful, beautiful book in this day and age, when acceptance, tolerance, diversity and different are such big topics in the world and on the news.  Looking at the beautiful face on the cover, was definitely an eye catcher. The illustrator, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, really caught a look on this child and on the cover of this book. She is shining!

The picture book has very beautiful illustrations that capture the essence of being different and being beautiful. While I stare at the beautiful pictures. I can hear the author narrating the story in my head but with this child’s voice. It is almost as though I can hear the breeze, the birds and the children being happy!

 The little girl is surrounded in her mind with beauty and harmony and she wants the whole world to be like her, to be happy, to live a beautiful life to live in to life. She wants the world to function daily the way we function, nobody has to die and everybody needs to get along and everybody from everywhere even though we’re from different places we should all be the same in our hearts and you can see this in the pictures and you can hear it in the words and you can see depicted in all the different beautiful faces that are drawn and painted so beautifully in these pictures and described in the words.

We should all be so lucky to have the opportunity to be a mother or a father and to go to school and to play, to live where we want to live and be happy with what and where we live.  I see the pictures and I see the story and I see all the different types of background and then I see her and she is just in this world that is beautiful, where she  is shining and she wants to have the right to sing.

 Brooks, G., & Gilchrist, J. S. (2017). We are shining. HarperCollins Children's Books.

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AvailableNow@BlackRoseBooks BlackRoseBooksPDX.net Michael@BlackRoseBooksPDX.net $19.00 *Young Adult*

In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden Shovel" poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is thought-provoking.

This special book also includes original artwork in full-color from some of today's most exciting African American illustrators, who have created pieces of art based on Nikki's original poems. Featuring art by: Cozbi Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Pat Cummings, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, Nikki Grimes, E. B. Lewis, Frank Morrison, Christopher Myers, Brian Pinkney, Sean Qualls, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, Shadra Strickland, and Elizabeth Zunon.

A foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author's note, poet biographies, and index makes this not only a book to cherish, but a wonderful resource and reference as well.

[tennesseepta]

Book list teaching children social justice values

The Education Committee will be sponsoring book-list posts for the next two years on various topics for families.  The first list is from our ECEFD chairman Tara Voit, and two friends, about books that teach children social justice values.

Teaching Children Social Justice Values Book List

Presented by: Tara Voit

Jacob’s New Dress - Sarah Hoffman I Am Jazz - Jessica Herthel Throw Your Tooth on the Roof - Selby Beeler My Name is Yoon - Helen Recorvits and Gabi Swiatkowska The Great Big Book of Families - Mary Hoffman A Rainbow of Friends - P. K. Hallinan If America were a Village - David Smith Special People, Special Ways - Arlene Maguire Let’s Talk about Race - Julius Lester And Tango makes Three - Justin Richardson Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia - Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are - Maria Dismondy Those Shoes - Maribeth Boelts These Hands - Margaret H. Mason My Name Is Sangoel - Karen Williams The Swirling hijaab - Na’ima bint Robert and Nilesh Mistry Many ways: How families practice their beliefs and religions - Shelley Rotner and Sheila M Kelly, Ed.D Golden domes and silver lanterns: A Muslim book of colors - Hena Khan and Mehrdokht Amini New Beginnings: Celebrating Birth - Anita Ganeri Growing Up: From Child to Adult - Anita Ganeri Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words - Karen Leggett Abouraya Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers of 1909 - Michelle Markel I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark - Debbie Levy Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation - Duncan Tonatiuh Keep Climbing, Girls - Beach E. Richards I Love My Hair! - Natasha Anastasia Tarpley Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure - Wynton Marsalis The Amazing Erik - Mike Huber Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music - Margarita Engle Who's in a Family? - Robert Skutch Little Quack’s Bedtime - Lauren Thompson A Million Visions of Peace - Jennifer Garrison Portraits - Steve McCurry How Do You Hug A Porcupine? - Laurie Isop A is for Activist - Innosanto Nagara The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher - Molly Bang Shades of Black - Sandra L. Pinkney A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of Children’s Books to Aid the Homeless - Franz Brandenberg et al. Our Community Garden - Barbara Pollak Tico and the Golden Wings - Leo Lionni Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins Lauren Mills Those Shoes - Maribeth Boelts My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native Americans in the West - Morgan Monceaux On a Beam of Light - Jennifer Berne Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing - Jan Spivey Gilchrist Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & her Family's Fight for Desegration - Duncan Tonatiuh Counting on Community - Innosanto Nagara

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Book Review: The Great Migration: Journey To The North

Book Review: The Great Migration: Journey To The North

The Great Migration:  Journey To The North, by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

This is not a very good book.  Or at least this is not a book that I have any particular reason to care about personally.  For those who are not aware, the Great Migration is the rather generic and somewhat overblown name given for the movement of blacks from the South to the West and North…

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Women’s History Month

The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can: A True Story

Tererai Trent

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Viking BYR, 2015

Ages 6 - 8 years

Grades 1 and up

40 Pages

This is the story of a little girl with big dreams. All the girl ever wanted was an education. But in Rhodesia, education for girls was nearly impossible…Would her dreams ever come true

Amazon | IndieBound

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Jan Spivey Gilchrist touches audiences through her books, illustrations, and speaking engagements

Jan Spivey Gilchrist, who won the Coretta Scott King Award for NATHANIEL TALKING (Writers & Readers) and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for NIGHT ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREET (Penguin Putnam) and whose latest titles include WE ARE SHINING (HarperCollins), THE THUMBTACK DANCER (Alazar Press) and A VOICE AS SOFT AS A HONEY BEE'S FLUTTER (Discovery House) recently spoke to students at schools in Romeoville, Illinois and gave an evening presentation at Lewis University as well.

Here is what Pamela Pritchard, the Director of School Partnerships for Lewis University, had to say about Jan's visit:

"Jan Spivey Gilchrist has written and illustrated many magical, magnificent, and mesmerizing books for young people. This work comes easy for her as her personality is magical and mesmerizing as well! To hear her speak of her craft leaves her audience with a feeling of wonder and awe as her energy and passion are palpable and inviting. Bravo to Ms. Spivey Gilchrist and the many lives she has touched through her books and illustrations!"

If you would like your own students to hear Jan Spivey Gilchrist speak, just contact Balkin Buddies and we'll be happy to help arrange the visit.

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NoveList's Juvenile Brain Trust is a group of readers' advisory and metadata librarians who focus on books for kids and teens. Once a week, the JBT gets together to catch up and share new books. On 8/30/2017, we looked at:

The Loser’s Club, by Andrew Clements

Mama Lion Wins the Race, by Jon J. Muth

Now, by Antoinette Portis

Creepy Pair of Underwear!, by Aaron Reynolds, illus. Peter Brown

The Thumbtack Dancer, by Leslie Tryon, illus. Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Have you read any of these books? What do you think of them?

For more recommendations (plus printables and readers’ advisory tips), subscribe to the NoveList Book Squad!

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Tonight on the Write Stuff -- Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Tonight on the Write Stuff — Jan Spivey Gilchrist

My show primarily focuses on authors but today on the we’ll be talking to renown children’s book illustrator, author, and speaker Jan Spivey Gilchrist

She is most known for her work on children’s books such as The Great Migration: Journey to the North, Nathaniel Talking, and My America. Her books have received numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Medal for Illustration and…

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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

Nikki Grimes

In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden Shovel" poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is thought-provoking.

This special book also includes original artwork in full-color from some of today's most exciting African American illustrators, who have created pieces of art based on Nikki's original poems. Featuring art by: Cozbi Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Pat Cummings, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, Nikki Grimes, E. B. Lewis, Frank Morrison, Christopher Myers, Brian Pinkney, Sean Qualls, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, Shadra Strickland, and Elizabeth Zunon.

A foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author's note, poet biographies, and index makes this not only a book to cherish, but a wonderful resource and reference as well.

Awards for Planet Middle School: 2014 Garden State Teen Book Awards list Nominated for the 2012 NCAAP Image Award - Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens CCBC Choices 2012 2012 Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street Nominated for the 2012-13Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program

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April Is Poetry Month

April Is Poetry Month

The month of April is Poetry month, and Harper Collins has some of the best books to celebrate this month. And of course we love our books we recieve, and have a pretty book collection. The books they have for this month are great for all the little ones, and the older ones too. 

  Here are some picture books for the younger ones to enjoy:

Honey, I Love

Honey, I Loveby the Coretta Scott King…