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I Can Write the World

I Can Write the World - Hardcover

by Joshunda Sanders
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Joshunda Sanders, Charly PalmerSeries:Ava Murray Writes the WorldAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2019-07-08Pages:40
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Six Foot PressISBN-13:9781644420010ISBN-10:1644420015UPC:9781644420010Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Lifestyles, Diversity & Multicultural, People & PlacesBook Topic:City & Town Life, United StatesSize:11.60 x 9.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SC0PP57WE0
"Lovely and timely. So glad Joshunda is telling our stories." - Jacqueline Woodson

Eight-year-old Ava Murray wants to know why there's a difference between the warm, friendly Bronx neighborhood filled with music and art in which she lives and the Bronx she sees in news stories on TV and on the Internet. When her mother explains that the power of stories lies in the hands of those who write them, Ava decides to become a journalist.

I Can Write the World follows Ava as she explores her vibrant South Bronx neighborhood - buildings whose walls boast gorgeous murals of historical figures as well as intricate, colorful street art, the dozens of different languages and dialects coming from the mouths of passersby, the many types of music coming out of neighbors' windows and passing cars. In reporting how the music and art and culture of her neighborhood reflect the diversity of the people of New York City, Ava shows the world as she sees it, revealing to children the power of their own voice.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Six Foot PressISBN-13:9781644420010ISBN-10:1644420015UPC:9781644420010Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Lifestyles, Diversity & Multicultural, People & PlacesBook Topic:City & Town Life, United StatesSize:11.60 x 9.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SC0PP57WE0

Joshunda Sanders has been a prolific journalist since 1999 and served as a staff writer for some of the nation's largest news organizations, including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. She has also worked as a federal speechwriter, as Press Secretary to the Secretary of Energy during the Obama Administration, and as Director of Communications in North America for Change.org. She teaches in the First-Year Writing Program at The New School in New York City. She earned a BA in English at Vassar College and an MS in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in the Bronx, not far from where she was raised.

Charly Palmer is an award-winning painter and collagist whose first children's book, Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song, won the 2018 Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe New Talent Award and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the year. He is also the illustrator of There's a Dragon in My Closet. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA.


Publisher: Six Foot Press

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Joshunda Sanders, Charly Palmer

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Joshunda Sanders

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