History for our children: an interview with Christopher Paul Curtis, a contemporary voice in African American Young Adult fiction.(Interview)

From: MELUS | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Morgan, Peter E. | Copyright information

Christopher Paul Curtis's first book The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 (Delacorte 1995) took the world of Young Adult fiction by storm. Named to the American Library Association's list of Best Books for Young Adults, The Watsons swept more than twenty-five major awards and honors, including the prestigious Newberry Honor Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for African American Writers. His second novel Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte 1999) seems set to follow the same...

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