WOW Review: Images of African Culture
Volume V, Issue 2
Winter 2012
Introduction and Editor’s Note
AYA
Written by Marguerite Abouet
Illustrated by Clément Oubrerie
Translation by Helge Dascher
Between Sisters
Written by Adowa Badoe
The Canoe’s Story
Written by Meshack Asare
City Boy
Written by Jan Michael
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
Written by John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech with Michael S. Sweeney and K.M. Kostyal
Son of a Gun
Written by Anne de Graaf
Stones for My Father
Written by Trilby Kent
This Thing Called the Future
Written by J.L. Powers
War Brothers
Written by Sharon E. McKay
Where I Belong
Written by Gillian Cross
Contributors:
Seemi Aziz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Jennifer Buntier, University of NM
Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Judi Moreillon, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
T. Gail Pritchard, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Kathy G. Short, University of Arizona, AZ
Yoo Kyung Sung, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Kinga Varga-Dobai, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA
Melissa B. Wilson, Tucson, AZ
Editor:
Janelle B. Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX – Chair/Editor
Production Editor:
Richard Clift
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WOW review: reading across cultures
ISSN 2577-0527
Congratulations to author Anne de Graaf and Eerdmans Books for Young Readers for today’s 2013 Batchelder Honor Book Award for Son of a Gun. The Batchelder is awarded by ALSC for the most outstanding books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. Read more at: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/batchelderaward