LISRadio: Kids Love Comics

September 25, 2006 on 9:52 am | In Authors, LISRadio, Youth Services | No Comments

This week’s LISRadio showcase is an interview with Jimmy Gownley and John Gallagher of Kids Love Comics, an organization that promotes G-rated comics for kids. The interview was conducted at the 2006 ALA Annual conference in New Orleans.

LISRadio: Rukhsana Khan

September 15, 2006 on 12:50 pm | In Authors, Children's Books, LISRadio, Youth Services | No Comments

This week’s LISRadio showcase is an interview with Muslim Canadian author Rukhsana Khan. After recording this interview, I bought two of the books she mentioned for my personal library of children’s books. Roses in My Carpets is a wonderful story about a refugee child in Afghanistan in about the mid-1990s. The Beduin’s Gazelle by Frances Temple is cited by Khan as an example of a novel written by a non-Muslim that gets the culture right. It would be a wonderful book for a fifth- or sixth-grade student who loves reading fiction about other cultures and times.
The Roses in My Carpets The Beduins\' Gazelle (Harper Trophy Books (Paperback))

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