Posts by Nancy Bo Flood
USBBY Conference Report
At this amazing gathering of authors, educators, librarians, editors and publishers, we celebrated the Joy of Children’s Books. Mem Fox, Peter Sis and Katherine Paterson were three of the many…
Read MoreGood New Books About Today’s Native Americans – Part 2
How I Became a Ghost How I Became a Ghost, a Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle From Chapter 1, “Talking Ghost” “MAYBE YOU HAVE never read a book…
Read MoreGood New Books About Today’s Native Americans – Part 1
Very few books have been written about or by Native Americans, less than 1% of all books published for children! Most “Indian” books are about people from the past –…
Read MoreWorld Tour Blog part 2
Nancy Bo Flood writes and teaches on the Navajo Reservation where she hikes, rides her bike and attends local rodeos. She is the author of several award-winning books including Navajo…
Read MoreWorld Tour Blog
Thank you, Karen Lynn Williams, author of many award winning picture books that gently encourage compassion. Karen’s books offer a child’s perspective about what it means to be lose one’s…
Read MoreThe Hogan that Great-Grandfather Built
This children’s picture book tells the story of one multi-generational Navajo family that works, plays, eats, sleeps and shares their lives together in around their family hogan.
Read MoreKona Stories and Cowboy Up!
I am in Kona, Hawaii (Big Island) at my mom’s and last week enjoyed a delightful morning of “kids and books” sponsored by the local bookstore: Kona Stories. A posse…
Read MoreGood Night Sea
Hawaii, Big Island · 2013 August Four swimmers (including me) in black-skinned, neck to toe suits slipped into the inky rolling water. Eight pm. Time to turn on headlights and…
Read MoreHeart in Nonfiction Books
Guest Post by Nancy Bo Flood on Janet Fox’s Through the Wardrobe blog, April 18, 2013 Nancy Bo Flood, a good friend and talented fellow Vermont College of Fine Arts grad,…
Read MoreCheryl Carpinello: Meet Author Nancy Bo Flood
by Cheryl Carpinello, originally published at Carpinello’s Writing Pages · March 19, 2013 Today I humbly welcome prolific writer Nancy Bo Flood to Carpinello’s Writing Pages. I say prolific because Nancy is…
Read MoreTuscon
Tucson was a warm, sunshine filled time of crazy Tucson Book Festival and then quiet being with Bill. We slept a lot, ate amazing foods spiced with a variety of…
Read MoreNancy Bo Flood’s Story
By Stephanie Greene, published in ReaderKidz, March 3, 2013 This month, ReaderKidZ is proud to welcome, Nancy Bo Flood. She’s the author of many books including Sand to Stone, The…
Read MoreWriting Friends: Nancy Bo Flood
by Karen Williams in her blog, Williams Writes · January 24, 2013 The internet was new (to me anyway). It was 1993…or 4. We had just returned from Haiti. I was working…
Read MoreYou’ve Got To Have Heart, and a Good Story
Informational books for children keep getting better – innovative designs, creative presentations, plus captivating images that often mix photographs, historical papers with colorful art.
I think the most striking quality of current nonfiction books for children is that each book is a story – a story with setting, characters, plot or “through line,” and most important “heart.” What I mean by heart is that the passion of the author for the subject shines right through the words and captures the heart of the reader. When children read that last page, they not only know new information, but just as important, the reader cares. Wow! I want to read more. Where’s another book?
Leda Schubert’s picture book biography of Marcel Marceau does just that. Recently we posted an interview with Leda here at ReaderKidZ and two of her comments are especially relevant:
Read MoreCowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo
A book rocking with the sights, smells and sounds of rodeo. A selection of the Junior Library Guild. Photography by Jan Sonnenmair
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