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A Bookjoy Moment, November 2020
Our Newest Dynamo: Tracie D. Hall
Día Dynamos, creative and collaborative literacy advocates throughout the U.S., strive to expand Children’s Day, Book Day’s impact in innovative ways. The Dynamos understand that children matter and deserve to be celebrated, that literacy matters, and that linking all children and families to books and bookjoy strengthens communities and our country.
Tracie D. Hall
Tracie D. Hall
Executive Director
American Library Association
We are honored to introduce our newest Dynamo, Tracie D. Hall!
In February 2020, Tracie was appointed the American Library Association’s 10th executive director in its 143-year history. In her new role, she oversees the oldest and largest library association in the world, made up of 57,000 members and more than 200 staffers. Tracie is the first female African American executive director in ALA’s history. She also quickly became a friend of Children’s Day, Book Day (CDBD).
Alive: November 2020
Illustration by Patrice Barton from I Pledge Allegiance
Bombarded as we also are during this COVID Pandemic by ads and sales and distractions, how do we create opportunities to reflect on our specific work in this world? Investing in our deepest work day by day, we will feel most ALIVE. What is your deepest work?
Pat
New in paperback: Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube
Pat’s book Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube is now available in paperback! the book received many positive reviews and was a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor book for 2015.
"Evocative watercolor images and graceful short poems in Spanish and English celebrate water in all its forms and around the world…A lovely bilingual addition to the ‘sense of wonder’ shelf."
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"In this bilingual book, Mora uses her travels around the world to talk about water in unique ways, while creating varied and compelling imagery…Younger readers will enjoy the calmness of the words, while older readers will want to imitate the author’s style and try their own hand at descriptive writing."—School Library Journal
"Fourteen three-line verses, in English and Spanish, celebrate water in its many forms, from frost and fog to waves and waterfalls. Each verse is accompanied by a majestic double-page-spread painting from a specific place in the world…the poems speak to the wonders of water everywhere…Mora skillfully uses alliteration and assonance in the English versions of the poems…"—Horn Book