11 Books Published by Sourcebooks on Our Site — Book Cover Mosaic
Kwame Alexander’s Free Write: A Poetry Notebook
by Kwame AlexanderSourcebooks Wonderland (Nov 03, 2020)
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From the Newbery-Medal winning author of The Crossover and The Undefeated comes an exciting, interactive, poetry notebook—empowering kids to express themselves in verse.
Have you ever written a poem? How about rap lyrics or a letter or even a list? ’Cause those can all be poetry too. Wanna give it a try? Bestselling author and poet extraordinaire Kwame Alexander created this super-fly notebook just for YOU It’s bursting with cool activities, sizzling poetry starters, inspirational quotes, and lots of space to create. So grab your pen or pencil ’cause it’s time to give your words FLOW and RHYTHM and RHYME.
Incredible stories. Award-winning storytellers. Epic adventure, mystery, and fun? We’ve got it all in Ghostwriter, the extraordinary new series from the Emmy-award winning hit Apple TV+ show, created by your friends at Sesame Workshop.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla SaadSourcebooks (Jan 28, 2020)
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The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
"Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."?New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert
Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.
Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home.
This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:
- Examining your own white privilege
- What allyship really means
- Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
- Changing the way that you view and respond to race
- How to continue the work to create social change
Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change.
"Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won’t end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action." ?Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
by Nikki GrimesSourcebooks Jabberwocky (Jan 14, 2020)
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"[A] rhythmic, playful romp through a restless child’s bedtime routine… a loving, effective lullaby."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
A sweet bedtime story from the award-winning author Nikki Grimes about a mother, her little boy, and their imagination-fueled and animal filled journey to get to sleep.
It’s bedtime. But Mommy’s little one is not sleepy.
He growls like a bear, he questions like an owl, he tosses his mane like a lion. He hunts for water like a sly wolf, and hides like a snake.
Mommy needs to wrangle her sweet creature for sleep in this endearing and imagination-fueled journey to bedtime, from Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon.
"The mother’s loving understanding is demonstrated by how she works with her child’s rich imagination, never slipping into admonishment. As such, children will engage with the pajama-clad tot’s antics and be soothed by the book’s positive tone. A fabulous interpretation of an everyday battle."—Booklist, STARRED review
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by James Bradley, Ron Powers, and Michael FrenchSourcebooks Wonderland (Dec 01, 2019)
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I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
by Gilly Segal and Kimberly JonesSourcebooks Fire (Aug 06, 2019)
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Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me
by Eloise GreenfieldSourcebooks Jabberwocky (Apr 02, 2019)
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A new collection of poetry for kids from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield!
Thinker isn’t just an average puppy—he’s a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together, they turn the world around them into verse.
There’s just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can’t go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets’ Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret.
Praise for Thinker:
"Coretta Scott King Award-winner Greenfield sensitively conveys Jace’s anxiety about being perceived as different, and his realization that being true to one’s self is the best bet—for kids and dog poets, too."—Publishers Weekly
A Kate Greenaway Medal nominee
Couldn’t Ask for More
by Kianna AlexanderSourcebooks Casablanca (Oct 02, 2018)
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"A lush, beautifully written story about the indelible mark of first love. Intelligent, fresh, and utterly lovely."?KRISTAN HIGGINS for Back to Your LoveFake engagements are a dangerous business.Bryan James’s job is on thin ice unless he can secure a contract with a popular design house. He knows his best friend’s sister can help?but her terms are more than he bargained for.Alexis Devers’s debut fashion line is a hit. But when Alexis’s publicist tells buyers that it landed her a wealthy, gorgeous fiancé, Alexis needs to come up with one?fast. Bryan’s offer to strike a deal is perfectly timed. She’s more than willing?on one condition… It’s the perfect plan…until feelings start getting in the way. Suddenly, the dangers of mixing business and pleasure become much more real than either of them expected.The Southern Gentlemen series:
Back to Your Love (Book 1)
Couldn’t Ask for More (Book 2)What People Are Saying About Back to Your Love:
"The romantic ride of a lifetime."?Heroes and Heartbreakers
"Worth every moment…true depth of feeling."?Harlequin Junkies
"A strong introduction to a new series."?RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
The 100 Best African American Poems
by Nikki GiovanniSourcebooks MediaFusion (Nov 01, 2010)
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Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times
bestselling author Nikki Giovanni
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of
selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary
poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a
larger, less round number.
The result is this startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic
to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and
visionary future of African American verse. These magnetic poems are an
exciting mix of most-loved classics and daring new writing. From Gwendolyn
Brooks and Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, Natasha Trethewey, and many
others, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is
as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
African American poems are like all other poems: beautiful, loving,
provocative, thoughtful, and all those other adjectives I can think of.
Poems know no boundaries. They, like all Earth citizens, were born in some
country, grew up on some culture, then in their blooming became citizens of
the Universe. Poems fly from heart to heart, head to head, to whisper a
dream, to share a condolence, to congratulate, and to vow forever. The poems
are true. They are translated and they are celebrated. They are sung, they
are recited, they are delightful. They are neglected. They are forgotten.
They are put away. Even in their fallow periods they sprout images. And
fight to be revived. And spring back to life with a bit of sunshine and
caring.
-Nikki Giovanni
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- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Kwame Alexander
- Tupac Shakur
- Langston Hughes
- Mari Evans
- Kevin Young
- Asha Bandele
- Amiri Baraka
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Nikki Giovanni is an award-winning poet, writer, and activist. She is the author of more than two dozen books for adults and children, including Bicycles, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Racism 101, Blues: For All the Changes, and Love Poems. Her children's book-plus-audio compilation Hip Hop Speaks to Children was awarded the NAACP Image Award. Her children's book Rosa, a picture-book retelling of the Rosa Parks story, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Both books were New York Times bestsellers. Nikki is a Grammy nominee for her spoken-word album The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection and has been nominated for the National Book Award. She has been voted Woman of the Year by Essence, Mademoiselle, and Ladies' Home Journal. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, where she teaches writing and literature.
An Excerpt
From the Introduction:
Poems are like clouds on a June morning or two scoops of chocolate ice cream
on a sugar cone in August...something everyone can enjoy. Or maybe poems are
your cold feet in December on your lover's back...he is in agony but he lets
your feet stay...something like that requires a bit of love. Or could it be
that poems are exactly like Santa Claus...the promise, the hope, the
excitement of a reward, no matter how small, for a good deed done...or a
mean deed from which we refrained. The promise of tomorrow. I don't know. It
seems that poems are essential. Like football to Fall, baseball to Spring,
tennis to Summer, love Anytime. Something you don't think too much about
until it is in Season. Then you deliciously anticipate the perfection.
African American poems are like all other poems: beautiful, loving,
provocative, thoughtful, and all those other adjectives I can think of.
Poems know no boundaries. They, like all Earth citizens, were born in some
country, grew up on some culture, then in their blooming became citizens of
the Universe. Poems fly from heart to heart, head to head, to whisper a
dream, to share a condolence, to congratulate, and to vow forever. The poems
are true. They are translated and they are celebrated. They are sung, they
are recited, they are delightful. They are neglected. They are forgotten.
They are put away. Even in their fallow periods they sprout images. And
fight to be revived. And spring back to life with a bit of sunshine and
caring.
These poems, this book, admit I cheated. The idea of this and no more would
simply not work for me. I needed these plus those. My mother's favorite poem
by Robert Hayden, plus James Weldon Johnson beginning a world that included
the longing of the unfree for a loving God. My own fun "Ego Tripping"
reaching to embrace Margaret Walker's "For My People." "Train Rides" and
"Nikki-Rosa" read by old and loving friends. But also the newness: Novella
Nelson lending that sultry voice to the youngsters; Ruby Dee bringing her
brilliance to the Gwendolyn Brooks cycle. My Virginia Tech Family wanted to
participate: our president Dr. Charles Steger reading "The Negro Speaks of
Rivers," recognizing all our souls "have grown deep like the rivers." We
celebrate our Hips; we See A Negro Lady at a birthday celebration. Our
friends from James Madison University and West Virginia University came to
celebrate poetry with us, too. I love these poems so much. The only other
thing I would have loved is Caroline Kennedy reading "A Clean Slate."
At the end of a loving day of laughter in Jeff Dalton's studio, when
Clinton's makeup had taken forty years off some of us and twenty-five off
others, we all came together with one last great cry: the Dean of our
College; the Director of Honors; young, old, professional, professor, and
recited in one great voice "We Real Cool." Yeah. We are. This book says
Poetry Is For Everyone. What a Treat to be Snowbound with The 100* Best
African American Poems (*but I cheated).
I did cheat.
It's true.
But I did not lie.
Nikki Giovanni Poet
12 December 2009
Table of Contents
Dedication: The Aunt: xxi — Track 1
Mari Evans
1. For My People: 1 — Track 2
Margaret Walker
2. Leroy: 3
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
3. Ars Poetica: Nov. 7, 2008: 4
L. Lamar Wilson
4. Ka'Ba: 8
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
5. When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story: 9 — Track 3
Gwendolyn Brooks
6.
The Sermon on the Warpland: 11 — Track 4
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool: 12 — Track 5
Gwendolyn Brooks
7.
Jazz Baby Is It In You: 13
Antoine Harris
"I Fade Into the Night": 14
Adam Daniel
8. Old Lem: 15 — Track 6
Sterling A. Brown
9. I Am Accuse of Tending to the Past: 17 — Track 7
Lucille Clifton
10. I Am A Black Woman: 18 — Track 8
Mari Evans
11. Who Can Be Born Black?: 20 — Track 9
Mari Evans
12. Nikka-Rosa:21 — Track 10
Nikki Giovanni
13. Knoxville, Tennessee: 23 — Track 11
Nikki Giovanni
14. The Dry Spell: 24 — Track 12
Kevin Young
15. Those Winter Sundays: 26 — Tracks 13 & 14
Robert Hayden
16. Frederic Douglass: 27
Robert Hayden
17. The Negro Speaks of Rivers: 28 — Track 15
Langston Hughes
18. Choosing the Blues: 29
Angela Jackson
19. My Father's Love Letters: 30
Yusef Komunyakaa
20. The Creation: 32 — Track 16
James Weldon Johnson
21. A Negro Love Song: 36
Paul Laurence Dunbar
22. Lift Every Voice and Sing: 37
James Weldon Johnson
23. Go Down Death: 39
James Weldon Johnson
24. Between Ourselves: 42
Audre Lorde
25. The Union of Two: 45
Haki R. Madhubuti
26. Ballad of Birmingham: 46
Dudley Randall
27. A Poem to Complement Other Poems: 48
Haki R. Madhubuti
28. No Images: 51
Waring Cuney
29. Between the World and Me: 52
Richard Wright
30. Theme for English B: 54
Langston Hughes
31. Harlem Suite
Easy Boogie: 56
Langston Hughes Dream Boogie: 57
Langston Hughes Dream Boogie: Variation: 58
Langston Hughes Harlem: 58
Langston Hughes Good Morning: 59
Langston Hughes Same in Blues: 60
Langston Hughes Island: 61
Langston Hughes
32. The Blue Terrance: 62
Terrance Hayes
33.
The Mother: 64 — Track 17
Gwendolyn Brooks A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a
Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon: 66
Gwendolyn Brooks — Track 18
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till: 72
Gwendolyn Brooks A Sunset of the City: 73 — Track 19
Gwendolyn Brooks
34. Things I Carried Coming to the World: 75
Remica L. Bingham
35. Topography: 77
Remica L. Bingham
36. Beneath Me: 79
Jericho Brown
37. Autobiography: 80
Jericho Brown
38. Parable of the Sower: 82
Pamela Sneed
39. Heritage: 86
Countee Cullen
40. Yet I Do Marvel: 91 — Track 20
Countee Cullen
41. Incident: 92 — Track 21
Countee Cullen
42. We Wear the Mask: 93 — Track 22
Paul Laurence Dunbar
43. Triple: 94
Georgia Douglas Johnson
44. The Heart of a Woman: 95 — Track 23
Georgia Douglas Johnson
45. Woman With Flower: 96
Naomi Long Madgett
46. The Idea of Ancestry: 97
Etheridge Knight
47. Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat: 99
Larry Neal
48. Cleaning: 105
Camille T. Dungy
49. Boston Year: 106 — Track 24
Elizabeth Alexander
50. She Wears Red: 107
Jackie Warren-Moore
51. Commercial Break: Road-Runner, Uneasy: 110
Tim Seibles
52. Before Making Love: 114
Toi Derricotte
53. Be-Bop: 115
Sterling Plumpp
54. Personal Letter No. 3: 116 — Track 25
Sonia Sanchez
55. Poem at Thirty: 117 — Track 26
Sonia Sanchez
56. A Poem for Sterling Brown: 118 — Track 27
Sonia Sanchez
57. Marchers Headed for Washington, Baltimore, 1963: 120
Remica L. Bingham
58. And Yeah...This is a Love Poem: 123
Nikki Giovanni
59. The Carousel: 123
Gloria C. Oden
60. Only Everything I Own: 127
Patricia Smith
61. Lot's Daughter Dreams of Her Mother: 128 — Track 28
Opal Moore
62. The Girlfriend's Train: 131
Nikky Finney
63. Back from the Arms of Big Mama: 136
Afaa Michael Weaver
64. Mama's Promise: 139 — Track 29
Marilyn Nelson
65. Bop: A Whistling Man: 142
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
66. Homage to My Hips: 144 — Track 30
Lucille Clifton
67. Train Ride: 145
Kwame Dawes
68. Train Rides: 148 — Track 31
Nikki Giovanni
69. A Great Grandaddy Speaks: 153
Lamonte B. Steptoe
70. Eddie Priest's Barbershop & Notary: 154
Kevin Young
71. View of the Library of Congress From Paul Laurence Dunbar High School:
156
Thomas Sayers Ellis
72. Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956: 159 — Track 32
Natasha Trethewey
73. Some Kind of Crazy: 161
Major Jackson
74. From: 163
A. Van Jordan
75. Freedom Candy: 165
E. Ethelbert Miller
76. The Supremes: 167
Cornelius Eady
77. Jazz Suite
Nikki Save Me: 169
Michael Scott
"Nikki, If You Were a Song...": 170 — Track 33
Kwame Alexander Haiku: 170
DJ Renegade Untitled: 170
Nadir Lasana Bomani
"I Wish I Could've Seen It...": 171
Leodis McCray
78. That Some Mo': 174
DJ Renegade
79. Sometime in the Summer There's October: 175
Tony Medina
80. Dancing Naked on the Floor: 178
Kwame Alexander
81. Harriet Tubman's Email 2 Master: 180
Truth Thomas
82. A River That Flows Forever: 181 — Track 34
Tupac Shakur
83. The Rose that Grew from Concrete: 181 — Track 34
Tupac Shakur
84. Rochelle: 182
Reuben Jackson
85. All Their Stanzas Look Alike: 183
Thomas Sayers Ellis
86. From the Center to the Edge: 185
Asha Bandele
87. The Subtle Art of Breathing: 187
Asha Bandele
88. Southern University, 1963: 192
Kevin Young
89. Poetry Should Ride the Bus: 195
Ruth Forman
90. Blues for Spring: 197
Colleen J. McElroy
91. The Bicycle Wizard: 198
Sharon Strange
92. Bicycles: 199
Nikki Giovanni
93. A Clean Slate: 200
Fred D'Aguiar
94. Song Through the Wall: 201
Akua Lezli Hope
95. A Seat Saved: 203
Shana Yarborough
96. Sunday Greens: 205
Rita Dove
97. The Untitled Superhero Poem: 206
Tonya Maria Matthews
98. Mercy Killing: 209 — Track 35
Remica L. Bingham
99. If You Saw a Negro Lady: 210
June Jordan
100. Ego Tripping (There May Be a Reason Why): 212 — Track 36
Nikki Giovanni
Writing Great Books For Young Adults: Everything You Need To Know, From Crafting The Idea To Landing A Publishing Deal
by Regina BrooksSourcebooks (Sep 01, 2009)
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From a top young adult literary agent, the only guide on how to write for young adults With an 87 percent increase in the number of titles published in the last two years, the young adult market is one of the healthiest segments in the industry. Despite this, little has been written to help authors hone their craft to truly connect with this audience. Writing Great Books for Young Adults gives writers the advice they need to tap this incredible market. Topics covered include: Listening to the voices of youth Meeting your young protagonist Developing a writing style Constructing plots Trying on points of view Agent Regina Brooks has developed award-winning authors across the YA genre, including a Coretta Scott King winner. She attends more than 20 conferences each year, meeting with authors and teaching.
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
by Nikki GiovanniSourcebooks Jabberwocky (Oct 01, 2008)
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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INCLUDED IN THE BOOKLIST TOP 10 ART BOOKS FOR YOUTH! Our consensus is Hip Hop Speaks to Children is the most essential poetry purchase to make this year.
The poetry is enough.
The illustrations are enough.
The CD is enough.
Together, this book is a treasure of which you cannot get enough.
We shall accomplish much this year. Children will be encouraged to put their words to poetry and beats. Teachers will be encouraged to allow the artists to speak to children.
—Diane Chen, School Library Journal blog "Practically Paradise" ————————————————————————————————————————————— Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you’ve found poetry with a beat! Like Poetry Speaks to Children, the New York Times Bestselling classic poetry book and CD that started it all, Hip Hop Speaks to Children is meant to be the beginning of a journey of discovery. READ more than 50 remarkable poems and songs! HEAR poetry’s rhymes and rhythms from Queen Latifah to Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes to A Tribe Called Quest and more! * Also hear part of Martin Luther Kind’s original "I Have a Dream" speech, followed by the remarkable live performance of the speech by Nikki Giovanni, Oni Lasana and Val Gray Ward. * The Hip Hop Speaks to Children CD contains more than 30 performances, either by the artists who created them, or as unique interpretations by admiring poets and artists. DISCOVER Langston Hughes’s elegant gospel "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," A Tribe Called Quest’s playful "Ham ’N’ Eggs," Sterling A. Brown’s hard-luck "Long Track Blues," Gwendolyn Brooks’s wake-up call "We Real Cool," Kanye West’s lovely "Hey Mama," and Martin Luther King Jr.’s awe-inspiring "I Have a Dream." This is a collection of rhymes and rhythms unlike any other poetry book! Celebrate with remarkable poets, including:
Eloise Greenfield
Mos Def
Lucille Clifton
Oscar Brown Jr.
Tupac Shakur
Maya Angelou
Queen Latifah
Nikki Grimes
Walter Dean Myers
Common
and, of course, Nikki Giovanni Poems Include:
Ego Tripping
Rapper’s Delight
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Hey Mama
Ham ’N’ Eggs
Everything Is Everything
Ladies First MORE PRAISE FOR HIP HOP SPEAKS TO CHILDREN "With its archival recordings of poems read by the poets themselves, [Hip Hop] reminds everyone that poetry springs from an oral tradition."
—Publishers Weekly "This is the way to get children interested in reading and loving poetry. … A great book for both teachers and parents."
— Valerie Lewis, owner of Hicklebee’s children’s bookstore "The poems, the artwork, the CD…all complement each other to create a wonderful experience."
—Becky Laney, Becky Laney’s Books blog "Love this book. I think it is a K-8 must-have for classrooms and libraries. Like I said it is packed and it may be (at first) intimidating to young readers. But, once they hear some of the audio, spend time with the illustrations, and experience some of the poetry, I think it will become a favorite."
—Franki Sibberson, A Year of Reading blog "Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a wonderfully composed collection of poems from writers like Eloise Greenfield to late rapper and poet, Tupac Shakur. … Whether you read poetry or you hear it in a rap song, Giovanni’s genius endeavor will inspire children of all ages to have fun while listening to poetry. Rap is poetry, right?"
—Amy Bowllan, Amy Bowllan’s Blog (a School Library Journal Blog) "I highly recommend this one for all collections. If the title didn’t include the word "children" it’d be an excellent book all the way to high school. My coworkers and I are already talking about doing a Hip Hop poetry story time for our elementary school kids."
—Jennifer Rothschild, Biblio File blog "This is an incredibly powerful, beautiful and important book. Both the book and CD are stellar in quality and diversity. The artwork is amazing and I find myself pulling it out of the shelf over and over for just one more re-read. The grandchildren (ages 3 and 5) love it as well and ask to hear the CD while they pore over the pages and take breaks prancing around the room
It’s Always a Great Day to Be the Boss
by Charlos GarySourcebooks Hysteria (Oct 01, 2006)
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Yes, no matter what the weather or the quarterly forecast, it’s always the best of all worlds to be the boss…
?The boss said what??!!
?A laugh a minute at the crazy world of the workplace, whether the boss is making you wash his car, locking you in your cubicle or booby trapping the office supplies cabinet.
Charlos Gary is a nationally syndicated cartoonist with Creators Syndicate whose current series, Working It Out, appears weekly in over 35 newspapers nationwide. Charlos Gary, syndicated cartoonist with Creators Syndicate, provides a laugh a minute and the perfect gift for coworkers, whether the boss is asking you to wash his car, locking you in your cubicle, booby trapping the office supplies cabinet or firing someone on the same day they’re closing on their new house.