February 24, 2021
Winner of this year's Michael L. Printz Award, Everything Sad Is Untrue: A True Story, by Daniel Nayeri, spins a tale of his Persian forebears and the chain of events that led to his mother fleeing to Oklahoma with him when he was small.
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, is a beautiful picture book about a horrible event in American history, the day in 1921 when a mob burned and destroyed the thriving and prospering Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Happy Reading!
—Sondra Eklund
“To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field.”