Children s Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020
We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading!
Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press
I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour in high school: floppy backlist paperbacks that are easy to hold in one hand while snacking with the other, with stories that I want to reread again and again. I’ve had
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New #OwnVoices Picture Book Classified by Traci Sorell Tells the Inspiring True Story of .
Lerner Publishing GroupDecember 16, 2020 GMT
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Coming this spring from Millbrook Press™ an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group ™, Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by award-winning Cherokee author Traci Sorell and acclaimed Métis illustrator Natasha Donovan traces Ross’s journey from being the only girl in her high school math class to becoming an accomplished engineer and leader.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Coming this spring from Millbrook Press™ an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™,
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by award-winning Cherokee author Traci Sorell and acclaimed Métis illustrator Natasha Donovan traces Ross s journey from being the only girl in her high school math class to becoming an accomplished engineer and leader.
Mary Golda Ross worked on many classified projects as a twentieth-century aerospace engineer and much of what she did remains a secret to this day. Yet, her work was of tremendous importance to the US space program. Designing airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation s first female engineer, she broke barriers as a Cherokee woman in a male-dominated field. Her unrivaled passion for math and the strong Cherokee values with which she was raised shaped her life and work. This empowering picture book will serve as a mirror, wi