His handmade puppets took on a regal quality. Sunlight streams through his delicate watercolors, in the pages of Beautiful Blackbird (winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Atheneum, $19.99) and Can't Scare Me (Atheneum, $16.99), whether he was recounting an elegy or a folktale brimming with humor. Literacy-both textual and visual-was the passion he preached, in the most loving, uplifting way. He loved Shakespeare and Nikki Giovanni and Eloise Greenfield-especially her poem "Things." He didn't recite so much as sing the lines of poetry he shared, and with children, he always held out the book-even though he knew every word by heart-so they would make the connection between the phrases he spoke and the words on the page. If you've never heard him recite "My People" by Langston Hughes, listen here.
It's impossible not to root for Nora!" (Jesse Q.Beloved children's book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan embodied joy. "A tender reflection on finding your person while you're still desperately searching for yourself." (KJ Dell'Antonia, New York Times best-selling author of The Chicken Sisters) Nora Hughes is the perfect heroine for anyone looking to get past their own chapter 20-something and build their storybook life. Her new dream job, ever-optimistic Andrew, or.herself and her future. Unable to afford her rent and without even the novels she once loved as a comfort, Nora decides to moonlight for a rival publisher to make ends meet.and maybe poach some of Parsons' authors along the way.īut when Andrew Santos, a best-selling Parsons author no one can afford to lose, is thrown into the mix, Nora has to decide where her loyalties lie. Parsons is cutting her already unlivable salary. With her life spiraling and the Parsons staff sinking, Nora gets hit with even worse news. Because, honestly, is there anything dreamier than making books for a living? But after five years of lunch orders, finicky authors, and per my last emails, Nora has come to one grand conclusion: Dream jobs do not exist. When Nora landed an editorial assistant position at Parsons Press, it was her first step toward "the dream job".
Meet Nora Hughes - the overworked, underpaid, last bookish assistant standing. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Younger in a heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she'll have to ditch the "dream job" and write her own story to find her happy ending. "A heartfelt and exciting debut.a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself." (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising)
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