Tonya K. Bolden (born March 1, 1959) is an American writer best known for her works of children's literature, especially children's nonfiction.
Bolden has authored, co-authored, collaborated on, or edited more than forty books. Hillary Rodham Clinton praised her 1998 book 33 Things Every Girl Should Know in a speech at Seneca Falls, N.Y. on the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention.[1]Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (2005), her children's biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, was the James Madison Book Award Winner and one of four honor books for the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Author Award. M.L.K.: Journey of a King (2007) won the Orbis Pictus award from the National Council of Teachers of English, the organization’s highest award for children’s nonfiction, and the next year, her George Washington Carver (2008) was one of five honor books for the same award. In 2016, the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. selected Bolden for its Nonfiction Award in recognition of her entire body of work, which, according to the award, has “contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.”.[2]
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^"Author Tonya Bolden Receives 2016 Nonfiction Award". Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
Tonya K. Bolden (born March 1, 1959) is an American writer best known for her works of children's literature, especially children's nonfiction. Bolden...
America | Exhibitions - Library of Congress". loc.gov. November 12, 2012. Bolden, Tonya (January 6, 2015). Capital Days: Michael Shiner's Journal and the Growth...
Frederick: the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man, by TonyaBolden Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky, by David Bowles Google It! A History...
of Charlotte Forten Grimke (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) TonyaBolden, "Strong Men Keep Coming", The Book of African American Men: 31, quoted...
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actress. Star of Man Hunt, The Woman in the Window, and Dark Shadows. TonyaBolden, 1976. Author of children's non-fiction such as Pathfinders: The Journeys...
Tracy Dockray Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM, by TonyaBolden Condor Comeback, by Sy Montgomery, photographed by Tianne Strombeck Darwin's...
"Hale Woodruff". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 14, 2020. Tonya, Bolden (2004). Wake up our souls : a celebration of Black American artists...
2 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Kinna Reads, 24 September 2010. TonyaBolden, "Book Review: Two Types of Revelation – Daughters of Africa" Archived...
Sonia Sotomayor. “Honorable Mentions" went to Henry Louis Gates Jr., and TonyaBolden for Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction And The Dawning Of Jim Crow, and...
Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa", WebsLocal, 9 March 2019. TonyaBolden, "Book Review: Two Types of Revelation – Daughters of Africa", Black...
2019-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. TonyaBolden, "Biographies", Digital Schomburg African Women Writers of the 19th Century...
Wooley's children's book Say a Little Prayer—co-authored with Warwick and TonyaBolden, and illustrated by Soud—was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for...
Winner 2006 Author Julius Lester Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue Winner TonyaBolden Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Honor Nikki Grimes Dark...
from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021. Davis, TonyaBolden (1986). "Collecting Black Art: Investing Wisely in the Works of Black...
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up Tod Olson The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13 TonyaBolden Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls S. D. Nelson...
Rector: Kansas City's First Black Millionairess". The Kansas City Call. Bolden, Tonya (2014). Searching Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America. New...
Children’s Books / Alfred A. Knopf BFYR), October. 2018), written by TonyaBolden. Named a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2019, assembled...
Janovy No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas – TonyaBolden and Don Tate The Pastor Wears a Skirt: Stories of Gender and Ministry...
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