Vote To Get Derrick Barnes’ Ruby & The Booker Boys Series On Walmart Shelves
I’m making this short and sweet because really, what I’m going to ask you to do is quick and easy: MyBrownBaby’s own Derrick Barnes entered...
On the MyBrownBaby Bookshelf: Ruby And the Booker Boys. Plus, MBB's First Contest!
Ruby and the Booker Boys: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantly Newton (illustrator) Scholastic Paperbacks Ruby Marigold Booker is...
MyBrownBaby Fresh: The 2010 Holiday Gift Guide For Brown Boys
Welcome to day two of the MyBrownBaby Fresh 2010 Gift Guide. I combed the web in search of goodies made and or sold by people...
Happy Book Birthday, ‘Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut’!
"Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut" is on bookshelves today, and author Derrick Barnes is sharing why the story celebrates this truth: Black boys matter.
Making Magic: How We Launched Denene Millner Books
It's the little imprint that could. Here, everything you wanted to know about the birth of Agate Publishing's Denene Millner Books.
Why I Buy Black Children’s Books by Black Authors and Why You Should Too
Integrating children's bookshelves since 2001.
A Special MyBrownBaby Love Letter To Black Fathers Getting It Right
I totally heart me some President Barack Obama, I promise you this. But he ticked me off to the highest of ticktivity a few years...
{My Four Sons} How One Dedicated Father Made Reading Fundamental For His Son
By DERRICK BARNES For the most part, he’s everything I’m not. Well, not everything. I just wish I was born with his intensity and fire....
{Big Black Daddy} Sucka For Love
By Derrick Barnes It starts early. Well, at least for the eldest Barnes brother, Ezra, aka Pretty Boy McCoy, or aka his new and most fitting...
Introducing Big Black Daddy
By Derrick Barnes When I told a friend of mine about the title of my new MyBrownBaby column, she said it gave her images of...
