The New York Times ' 14 Antiracist Books for Kids and Teens Arnold Adoff Poetry Awards 2020, Special Recognition Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices 2019 Bank Street College of Eduction Best Children's Books 2019 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best of 2018, Middle Grade Poetry School Library Journal, Best Books 2018, Poetry These short, vibrant tanka poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in Sunday best, running to catch a bus, growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina's tanka is matched with a different artist--including recent Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award recipients.
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Tony Medina is a two-time winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People ( DeShawn Days and I and I, Bob Marley ), is the author/editor of nineteen books for adults and young readers. A Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Medina has received the Langston Hughes Society Award, the first African Voices Li
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