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February activities at the Warren County Memorial Library in Warrenton will include the return of the North Carolina Reads Program, a statewide book club sponsored by North Carolina Humanities.
Young readers can get into the holiday spirit with these seasonal titles that would make it onto anyone's nice list.
This Human Way: As She Sings She Writes, With Kelly Starling Lyons Author and Piedmont Laureate Kelly Starling Lyons in front of several of her children’s books, Photo by Melissa R. Campbell Kelly Starling Lyons—nationally recognized author of seventeen children’s books and respected advocate for Black children’s book creators through The Brown Bookshelf—is stepping into the leadership role of the Piedmont Laureate at a poignant time. Our country’s children are being required to navigate the grief and isolation of a pandemic and systemic racism, in addition to the already chall...
Kelly Starling Lyons Named the 2021 Piedmont Laureate Kelly Starling Lyons The children's literature writer Kelly Starling Lyons has been named the 2021 Piedmont Laureate. Starling Lyons, a Raleigh native, has been writing children's books since 2004 and is the author of 17 titles, including illustrated biographies of Misty Copeland and the late Durham architect Phil Freelon, as well as the award-winning Going Down Home with Daddy. She is also a founding member of the Brown Bookshelf, a collective founded to raise awareness of "the myriad Black voices writing for young readers." "...