September 2011 Issue

Mermaid by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

Pickney Pictures

• Pictures Last Longer by Destiny Maynard (13 years old)


Pickney Prose

• The Magic Rock by Abadai Zoboi (8 years old)


Fiction

• Anansi and the Golden Peacock by Dawne G. Zetterstrom
• Camot the Camera by Grethel Joseph
• Mango Belly (Part 1) by Tammi Browne-Bannister
• Mango Belly (Part 2) by Tammi Browne-Bannister
• The Little Golden Stone Man by Ibi Zoboi



Nonfiction

• An excerpt from Island Princess in Brooklyn by Diane Browne
• An excerpt from Marcus and the Amazons by Geoffrey Philp
• "Culture Again!" – Interview with YA author Ramin Ganeshram, Part 1 by Summer Edward
• Review of A Coconuts Life for Me by Summer Edward
• Stir It Up! is a "Novel with Recipes" – Interview with YA author Ramin Ganeshram, Part 2 by Summer Edward


Poetry

• The Earth’s Water by Summer Edward


Art

• Garden Fairy, Wings Made of Words and Dreamer by Featured Illustrator, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
• Mango Fairy by Featured Illustrator, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
• Reo's Shark Adventure, The Bacco and Reading is Magic by Featured Illustrator, Stacey Byer
• The Old Woman Speaks by Featured Illustrator, Michelle Alexander-Chin
• Waves by Featured Illustrator, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné


Guests from Around the World

• Dinner Song by Peter Taylor (Poetry)
• Feet by Harris Tobias (Poetry)
• Hyphen the Python by Peter Taylor (Poetry)
• It's So Hard to Be a (Paren) by Peter Taylor (Poetry)
• Ngoma: A Zimbabwean Origin Story by Gerald Hausman and Seth Cohen (Fiction)

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