I rarely write book reviews or even rate books on Amazon, in part because unless I can give an unabashed two-thumbs-up recommendation, I don’t enjoy putting into words what I don’t like about a book. It feels too much like gossiping about a friend whose flaws I recognize but nonetheless find endearing. With Susan Kaye …
The following excerpt from Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners, by Dr. Joy Lawson Davis, was originally published on my blog Everyday Intensity in 2010. You can also read a guest post by Dr. Davis on why she wrote the book and my review of Bright, Talented & Black. Chapter …
Joy Lawson Davis, Ed.D., begins Bright, Talented & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners (Great Potential Press) with the poem “Genius Child” by Langston Hughes. Her book is indeed, in Hughes’s phrase, “a song for the genius child,” comprehensive in scope and unfailingly friendly in tone. Unlike so many books about …
A Recap of This Week’s Back-to-School Book Giveaways Leave a comment on my review of Wendy Skinner’s Life With Gifted Children: Infinity and Zebra Stripes before midnight, Sunday, September 4th, for a chance to receive a free paperback copy. Leave a comment on yesterday’s Everyday Intensity post before midnight, Saturday, September 3rd, for a chance to …
Kelsey Ketch wrote a delightful review of Oscar’s Gift today. Thank you, Kelsey!