E.E. Charlton-Trujillo, author of Fat Angie, has spoken out about a recent situation where a school in Texas cancelled her appearance just four days before it was to happen. It is clear that someone objected to her appearance since they were not interested in rescheduling her event.
Yet something beautiful has emerged and that is the video that Charlton-Trujillo has posted exemplifying the power and the threat of silence:
The Horn Book has selected its choices for the best books of 2014. Here they are:
PICTURE BOOKS
The Baby Tree by Sophie Blackall
Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors by Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash
Draw! by Raúl Colón
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee
Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio; illustrated by Christian Robinson
My Bus by Byron Barton
Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett; illustrated by Jon Klassen
Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales, with photos by Tim O’Meara
FICTION
Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis
My Heart Is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz; illustrated by Eva Eriksson; translated from the Swedish by Julia Marshall
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye; illustrated by Betsy Peterschmidt
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
West of the Moon by Margi Preus
FOLKLORE
Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya; illustrated by Susan Guevara
POETRY
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson; illustrated by Hadley Hooper
NONFICTION
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm; illustrated by Molly Bang
El Deafo by Cece Bell
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell; illustrated by Christian Robinson
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond by Patrick Dillon; illustrated by Stephen Biesty
Waking Brain Cells 