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Your 2016 Carter G. Woodson Award panelists

I’ve been running in bunches of directions of late — 65 campuses visited since Labor Day will do that to a guy — and can’t do justice to them all. But one of those directions, briefly, was Washington, DC-ward last weekend for the National Council of the Social Studies conference. I was there to receive […]

How are educators using The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch?

I’d like to act as a clearinghouse for schools/educators who have taught/would like to teach The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch. There’s already an educator’s guide that was made before the April 2015 publication date. Lots has happened since. If you or someone else at your elementary, middle, or high school has taught and […]

Whoosh! is on the brand-new Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List

I’m happy as can be to spread the news that the 2017-18 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List announced last weekend at the Texas Book Festival here in Austin includes Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. Whoosh! is my second collaboration with my friend Don Tate. Its predecessor, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, […]

Parents magazine calls Whoosh! the year’s best nonfiction picture book

Big news this week from a magazine read by millions of parents: Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Charlesbridge) has been named the best Nonfiction Picture Book of 2016 by Parents magazine. I’m so glad that my second collaboration with Don Tate has been honored in this way, especially considering the wealth of top-notch […]

October 2016 Bartography Express: “They are amazed at what he accomplished.”

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In which I am interviewed by students from Patsy Sommer Elementary

Students at Sommer Elementary in Round Rock, Texas, recently had some questions for me, so I thought I’d answer them here (just as I did a few months back with questions from Graham Elementary students). Our class read your book The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch. It was so interesting! Where did you learn […]

How do you make a visiting author monstrously happy?

By sending him off from your school library with vintage — and only recently weeded from your collection — copies of some of his most beloved books from around third grade! A note to my future hosts: I sure would love to be reunited with the late-’70s books about Bigfoot and the Bermuda Triangle that […]

Happy anniversary, JRL and SVT!

This is a slide I show in my presentations to schools about The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch (often right after students have speculated that I might have spent anywhere from two days all the way up to a year and a half working on that book): Yes, I got the idea to write […]

Justice

“Justice. Peace. Black people saw reason to believe that these were now available to them.” — from The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch I’m used to the subject of justice coming up when I visit elementary schools — it’s a central theme of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, which I discuss with […]

September 2016 Bartography Express: “If children learn to love and respect the elephant through this book, I will be overjoyed”

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