Defending Books with Summer Boismier – Fable Event (October 2022)
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to Summer Boismier as part of Fable’s book club events. As a fervent defender of reading for all, Summer was thrust into the spotlight at the beginning of the school year in August 2022, when she posted a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned initiative in her Norman, Oklahoma, high school classroom. As a self-described “pro-bibliophile,” Summer wanted to give her students a way to access challenged and banned books, books she felt she was unable to continue to share as part of her classroom library. You can access our talk here.
I Was Born Dancing, by Gianna Valenti (2022)
I had the pleasure of working with Gianna on her children’s book, which she describes as a work “to support creative awareness in dance.” Love the concept, love the drawings (beautifully illustrated by Indrė Pačėsaitė). It’s a reminder that we can all be free to dance, move, and breathe like children, no matter what our age.
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