Audio Clip: Hip Hop Speaks to Children on NPR
Hip hop is one of my favorite types of music (proud watcher of VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs last weekend). Children’s books are my favorite kind of books. An intermingling of the two? Sounds to good to me. NPR recently interviewed Nikki Giovanni, author of “Hip Hop Speaks to Children“. You may have some read reviews of the book:
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Ms. Giovanni discusses the book and the process of its creation on All Things Considered. While listening, I realized that I really need to write more braggadocio posts*. Click the play button below to listen.
[8 min. 14 sec.]
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(Sentence added purely so I could write the word “braggadocio”)
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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