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NEWS & EVENTS |
Listen to the National Public Radio (NPR) interview! -click on the link below and hit the "Listen Now" button- NPR.org |
Javaka Steptoe wins the 2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award for JIMI: Sounds Like A Rainbow! *click here for press release* |
watch the video for: "Writing Dangerously" A Public Panel Sponsored by the PEN Children's and Young Adult Book Authors Committee Panelists included Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of the ALA Schneider Award-winning Anything But Typical; 2011 Newbery Honor winner Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer; Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm, a Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal Best Children’s Book of 2010; and Gary Golio, author of the NY Times bestselling Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow – A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix and the forthcoming When Bob Met Woody. Moderated by Beverly Horowitz, Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press (from 2/7/11, at the Instituto Cervantes, 211 East 49th Street, NYC) video link |
WBMW receives 2011 National Parenting Publications Award, recognizing the best in children's products and parenting resources! www.parenthood.com |
NEWS FLASH! |
Rolling Stone Declares Jimi Hendrix the Greatest Guitarist of All Time!! read the Jimi tribute essay by Pete Townshend below Rolling Stone article |
Special Event John Coltrane - In Search of Sound & Meaning Roundtable Book Discussion & Live Jazz author Jamie Howison (God's Mind in That Music - Theological Explorations Through the Music of John Coltrane) author Gary Golio (Spirit Seeker - John Coltrane's Musical Journey) artist-illustrator Rudy Gutierrez (Spirit Seeker) Lewis Porter, piano Ike Sturm, bass Chris Dingman, vibraphone St. Peter's (the Jazz Church), Lexington Avenue & 54th St., NYC www.saintpeters.org/home *The Event is Free & All are Welcome* |