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LISTEN by Shannon Stocker Read by Elle Newlands
by Shannon Stocker | Read by Elle Newlands Children Ages 4-6 17 mins. Unabridged © 2022 Instrumental effects and low background music enhance this biography of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Narrator Elle Newlands's Scottish accent echoes Evelyn's origins as listeners learn about a girl with a gift for music who is diagnosed with hearing loss. The trills of different instruments and other sound effects educate listeners and spark the joy Evelyn feels about music.
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
by Shannon Stocker (text) & illus. by Devon Holzwarth Dial. Apr. 2022. 40p. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780593109694. COPY ISBN Gr 3-6–The life of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie dances and swirls across the page in this vibrantly illustrated picture book biography that is perfect for elementary school readers learning about music and fascinating women. Glennie’s story begins in Scotland, where she can play music by ear by the age of 10.
2023 Youth Media Award Winners Playlist on Libro.fm
Skip content Freewater By Amina Luqman-Dawson Narrated by: Cary Hite & Sisi Aisha Johnson Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he...
Cover Reveal! Shannon Stocker’s LISTEN: HOW EVEYLN GLENNIE, A DEAF GIRL, CHANGED PERCUSSION (plus a giveaway)
by Shannon Stocker Mega thanks to my mentor and friend, Tara Lazar, for hosting the cover reveal of my upcoming non-fiction picture book, LISTEN: HOW EVEYLN GLENNIE, A DEAF GIRL, CHANGED PERCUSSION (April 12, 2022, from Dial Books). About three years ago, after listening to an SCBWI speaker talk about the importance of writing what you know and the #OwnVoices movement, I felt moved to write a book about a musician who’d overcome something huge.
Writing When Life SUCKS by Shannon Stocker
by Shannon Stocker You know how you have to make a total mess before you can really begin cleaning? Like how you have to pull all the books off a bookshelf to alphabetize them, or empty all your drawers before reorganizing? Well, that’s going to be this blog. So bear with me. I’ll get there, I promise. Those who know me know that I also write outside of the picture book genre.
Storystorm 2020 Day 22: Shannon Stocker Finds Inspiration in #OwnVoices
by Shannon Stocker If you’ve attended any SCBWI conference or followed writers on Twitter for longer than a minute, you’ve probably heard the message loud and clear. Write what you know. Know what you write. We need #OwnVoices. The push for diversity is strong, vital, and long overdue in the picture book world. I challenge you to go to any bookstore or library and pull books off the shelf, separating them by the protagonist’s race.
2019 Picture Book Spotlight Award Winners
2019 Picture Book Spotlight Award Winners Happy Thursday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Today I have the pleasure of announcing the 2019 Picture Book Spotlight Awards--the top picture books in 2019 nominated by YOU! The books below represent the top ten most frequently nominated books by those who participated in the award process. After tallying everything up, I was jazzed with the results.
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