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Articles by K.A. Holt
Creating and Protecting Unknowable Connections in Children’s Literature
Who am I? While we never really stop asking ourselves this question, my curiosity—and my writing—centers on when we start asking it, and what happens when our answer differs from internalized expectations. As the character Kate asks in my middle grade novel-in-verse, Redwood & Ponytail: What if my me is entirely different than the Mom-me? What if the me-me isn’t as good or smart or perfect as the Mom-me? Then who will I be? Nobody?
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BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
From the author of Redwood and Ponytail, Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, and Knockout! The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands.
September Texas Books Preview
Surprisingly cool mornings of late on the Caprock are comforting and give us hope that the summer dogs are preparing to slink away. As we attempt to comfort ourselves and each other, hope takes center stage from summer monsters, except for kids’ Halloween reading, in the September Texas Books Preview.
REDWOOD AND PONYTAIL
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
By K.A. Holt | K.A. Holt is the author of Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, Knockout, and the forthcoming Redwood + Ponytail (all from Chronicle Books), along with several other books for young people. She lives in Austin, Tex., and is active within the vibrant Texas writing community. I am in a gym. I hold a microphone in one hand, a remote in the other. Three hundred and fifty middle school kids size me up. I ask them if they want to see my seventh grade yearbook photo.
Kwame Alexander aims to win readers who are at the age he hated books
As a kid, Kwame Alexander never wanted for books. His father was a publisher, and his mother was an English teacher. "I lived in a Wal-Mart of books," the author and poet said with a laugh. "It wasn't just books as holiday gifts. Christmas was every day. Books were stacked on the floors. They were on our walls." Alexander said he read everything he could get his hands on while growing up in Brooklyn, New York. Favorite authors included Eric Carle, Lee Bennett Hopkins and Eloise Greenfield.
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