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Use Your Words! / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

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Elise Stuart and Tom Hester interview Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, a prolific author of children’s books. Her latest book, Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington was starred in School Library Journal and selected as a best book for 2017 by the Chicago Public Library.

Vaunda’s young adult book, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, honors the life of the author’s great uncle. It won the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for fiction, a 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor and prevailed in the 2013 School Library Journal Battle of the Kids’ Books.

Vaunda has been a teacher, newspaper reporter, bookseller, recreation specialist, children’s librarian, and has served on Newbery and Caldecott Awards committees. She currently lives in New Mexico, with her husband, Drew.


Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time.

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Use Your Words! / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show, Elise can be contacted at UseYourWords@GMCR.org.

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