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Tag: Alice Faye Duncan

September 30, 2025 by Betsy Bird

“Trying times like these require good music and dancing.” A Blues Boy Cover Reveal and Q&A with Alice Faye Duncan

An icon gets his picture book bio day in the sun. Alice Faye Duncan joins us today to talk about her latest creation and to reveal its cover too.

May 30, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Cover Reveal and Q&A: Alice Faye Duncan Discusses MLK Jr. and The Dream Builder’s Blueprint

Erasure poetry renders one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speeches into a picture book with art by E.B. Lewis. Learn more about the book from Alice herself and learn how to make your own erasure poem!

May 24, 2022 by Betsy Bird

Quite the Treat. A Yellow Dog Blues Interview with Alice Faye Duncan and Chris Raschka

Any book that combines the vernacular stylings of Alice Faye Duncan, the intricate hand sewn and illustrated art of Chris Raschka, and the rhythm and music of the Mississipi Delta is a book you need to hear more about right now.

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Evicted: An Interview on a Timely Topic with Alice Faye Duncan

September 28, 2021 by Betsy Bird

I speak with Alice Faye Duncan about EVICTED!: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE, coming out this January. Learn more about this too little discussed moment in history.

Group Interview: The Sowing Circle sisterhood

January 8, 2020 by Betsy Bird

Today, I am very pleased to be interviewing not simply one creator but a whole group at once. The Sowing Circle is a sisterhood of Southern Black writers. And, in their own words, the group mission is to "sow affirming words and images in the hearts of children in order to reap a generation that is inquisitive, empathetic and enlightened".

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