are talking to Toni Morrison, and she, in turn, is talking to us," Pinkney tells ESSENCE, describing her poetic children's picture book. A towering figure in American literature, Morrison was a ...

"And it's a tool because it allows parents, caregivers, folks who are engaging with children to say, 'This is the great towering legacy of Toni Morrison. Let me tell you, young person, what she ...

and I want to give that gift to others but there are those who are trying to limit that,” children’s book author Elisa Stone Leahy said. The Ohio Library Council said no Toni Morrison book has ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel ... race are discussions about why Shirley Temple was an icon for the children in the book. And why did we grow up all having dolls with blonde ...

American Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison smiles during a news conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Nov. 8, 2006. (Michel Euler/AP) Author Andrea Davis Pinkney is out with a ...