James Haskins List
Published on 7 Sep 2006 at 2:09 pm. Filed under Featured Authors.
James Haskins
“Professor James Haskins (d. 2005) was the author of more than 100 books for adults and young people. In 1994, he was presented the Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Award for a body of work in nonfiction for young people. ”
Prof. Haskins writes, “I was born in Dentopolis, Alabama and spent my childhood in a household with lots of children, a household where I felt a great need for privacy. One of the places I found privacy was in books. I could be anywhere at all, but if I was reading it book I was by in myself. Sometimes it was hard for me to get books. In the 1950s, when I was a child, the South was rigidly segregated. The Demopolis Public library was for whites; a black child could not go there. My mother arranged for a white friend to get books from the library for me. Many years later, I returned to Demopolis and gave some of the books I had written to the library I could never enter as a child. Some years after that, I was invited to give an important speech in that same library.”
The anniversary of his birth is September 19th.
More information about James Haskins
Top Ten Most Popular James Haskins Books in the Children’s Room
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10. Separate, But Not Equal
9. African American Entrepreneurs
8. Out of the Darkness
7. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
6. Space Challenger
5. Count Your Way through the Arab World
4. African Beginnings
3. Sports Great Magic Johnson
2. Bill Cosby
1. Count Your Way through China
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