Books for Children, Young Adults, and Adults
THE BLACKER THE BERRY was just named a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 2009!
Joyce Carol Thomas has published more than 30 award-winning books. The BLACKER THE BERRY wins Coretta Scott King/ALA 2009 Book Awards! THE BLACKER THE BERRY, which also recently received 2 great reviews from Kirkus and BookList, and was chosen as one of the 2008 New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.
And we are now celebrating the 25th anniversary of her first novel, MARKED BY FIRE, winner of the National Book Award.
Check out her Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s
Book of the Year for 2009 Award, other Coretta Scott King Awards; the Junior Library Guild Award; the Poet Laureate Award from OK Center for Poets and Writers; & The Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award
.
Joyce Carol Thomas is a member of The Authors Guild: http://www.authorsguild.org and
SCBWI: Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators http://www.scbwi.org
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A special thanks to Broadway Star Tina Fabrique for permission to use her recording of "Let the Children Sing..."
Joyce Carol Thomas
When Reading is SERIOUS Fun!
THE BLACKER THE BERRY named
a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s
Book of the Year for 2009, on May 27, 2009
JOYCE CAROL THOMAS receives Oklahoma's Life Time Achievement Award and is inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame by Oklahoma Secretary of State, at the Philbrook Museum October 6, 2009 & Coretta Scott King/ALA Book Award
FIRST LADY MICIHELLE OBAMA LIKES TO RE
THE BLACKER THE BERRY named a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 2009!& the
Black Indians -
An American Melting Pot!
A Black Boy Riding
His Indian Palomino Horse
This 2009 photo of Joyce was taken in her home office where she writes her novels, poetry, plays, and songs. World Class Award-Winning photographer, Amy Matarazzi shot this photo especially for Joyce's Oklahoma Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony to be held in the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa
October 6, 2009.
Thank you Amy & Teresa
Listen to "Let the Children Sing"
by Tina Fabrique.
