By Christine Lively Today we're pleased to welcome Ibi Zoboi to the WNDB blog to discuss middle grade biography Star Child, out now. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red … [Read more...] about Q&A With Ibi Zoboi, Star Child
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Q&A With Ibi Zoboi and Loveis Wise, The People Remember
By Khadejah Khan Today we’re pleased to welcome Ibi Zoboi and Loveis Wise to the WNDB blog to discuss The People Remember. Ibi, this is your debut picture book for a younger audience, which is different than who you have written for in the past. What appealed to you about writing for … [Read more...] about Q&A With Ibi Zoboi and Loveis Wise, The People Remember
Why Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi Collaborated on Punching the Air
By Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam Yusef Salaam was fifteen years old when he followed a few of his friends into Central Park on a warm April evening in 1989. He’d been doing what he’d always done as a teen growing up in New York City. We both remember what us kids used to call just hanging out … [Read more...] about Why Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi Collaborated on Punching the Air
