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In Memory: Bernette Ford

Posted on September 29, 2021September 24, 2021

Photo courtesy of Boxer Books

By Clara Hammett

Bernette Ford, author, editor, publisher, and champion of books by people of color died of cancer on June 20. She was 70.

Obituary: Bernette Ford, Who Made Children’s Books More Diverse, Dies at 70 by Neil Genzlinger from the New York Times.

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Cynthia Leitich Smith is a NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of books for young readers. Her latest titles are ANCESTOR APPROVED, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, SISTERS OF THENEVERSEA, which received six starred reviews, and HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won an American Indian Library Association’s Youth Literature Award.

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