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This year’s International Women’s Day campaign theme is #ChooseToChallenge. The IWD website states, “A challenged world is an alert world. [...]

The new year is off to a spectacular start for Carole Boston Weatherford’s books. Her title BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom was named a [...]

Spring is the time for new beginnings, which makes it the perfect time for stories of new love. The romance genre continues to be popular for [...]

There aren’t many children’s book authors who have written close to 200 nonfiction books and not a single fiction title, so it’s no surprise that [...]

Darnell Johnson is the illustrator of the upcoming graphic novel, Power Up. In today’s guest post for the Mackin community blog, he discusses his [...]

When I taught first grade, one of my favorite writing units was the “How-to” unit. This unit was always engaging and excited every student. I [...]

February is known for Valentine’s Day, a celebration of romantic love. But it can also be a time to honor friendships. Friends can be the most [...]

If we could do a bit of time traveling and end up right next to the chair I’m sitting on, in a classroom, in, let’s say, November 1974 (I’m ten [...]

It only takes a quick glance at Kate Messner’s website to grasp that she’s a prolific, award-winning writer with a wide array of books to her [...]