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. 

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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.