Archive: March 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Sasha Dowdy; (Year) 2021; (Month) March

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On March 12, We Listen, Learn, and Create Community

March 4, 2021

How do we learn to understand each other? Understanding those with whom we don’t share culture, or language, or appearance, is a skill, and a skill that can be honed from a very young age. On March 12, the Library of Congress and We Need Diverse Books present “Listening, Learning, Creating Communities,” a virtual symposium …

Posted in: Books & Author Programs, Events, Reading

Reading Like a Writer

March 2, 2021

Posted by: Sasha Dowdy

Today, on Read Across America Day, we celebrate reading like a writer, and share more advice from children’s and YA authors. Previously on this blog, we shared a post with words of advice on writing from YA authors. To see the full author talk from which each excerpt is drawn, click on the links listed after …

Posted in: Books & Author Programs, For Kids, For Teens, Reading, Writing

Refined by: (Author) Sasha Dowdy; (Year) 2021; (Month) March