Nikki Grimes, the winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement has written more than 100 children's books. Her latest, about the pandemic, is called Garvey in the Dark.
on the publisher's website."There are dark moments in it as Ms. Grimes writes about true incidents in her life, but these are all handled delicately, and ultimately it is an inspiring story of how Ms. Grimes prevailed through courage, faith, and writing."defended the memoir before the school board
. Banning a beautifully written story of survival, she says, tears down the kind of empathy it's meant to build."When you're trying to ban a book that's actually someone's life, you're basically saying – ehh, you're not that important," Perkins told NPR. Grimes knows how to cope with difficulty. Her time-tested strategies came in handy during the 2020 lockdown."Reading and writing were my survival tools," says the author, who lives alone."There were things in my head and my heart that I needed to get out, but there wasn't anybody to talk to.", follows the experiences of a young boy in the first few months of the pandemic. It's written in a style of five-line Japanese verse called tanka.
In a world that can feel made of equal parts peril and human fragility, Grimes has learned to make sense of things by writing. Now she helps kids by showing them how to write their way into the world.
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