Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store in Gulfport is celebrating Independent Bookstore Day this Saturday and they’re inviting the entire Gulf Coast! …

If you love love, this book is for you. Like truly love love. The idea of love, and all the things that come with loving someone. Because although this book is a romance novel for young adults, this is not some Disney, saccharine-filled love story. Not by far. The type of love…

Rapper, artist, and activist Genesis Be adds children’s book author to her list of accomplishments Biloxi, Mississippi native and multi-disciplinary artist, Genesis Be, will be holding her first book signing this Saturday, February 19th from 1pm to 3pm at Wow Book and Toy Store, located at 1520 29th Ave, Suite…

Author Lisa Stringfellow makes a splash with her middle grade Black mermaid fantasy tale If Calypso was your favorite part about Pirates of the Caribbean, then you will absolutely love this book! “A Comb of Wishes” is the middle grade debut from Lisa Stringfellow that hits shelves February 2022, and…

While we celebrate multicultural books every day around here, we love Multicultural Children’s Book Day because it takes special care to highlight not only multicultural books, but the authors that write them. …

Namina Forna is breaking into the Young Adult Fantasy world in an explosive way! Her debut novel, The Gilded Ones, will be released on February 9 and has already been compared to The Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. In The Gilded Ones we meet Deka, a sixteen-year-old…

Desmond Hall’s debut young adult Your Corner Dark novel follows Franklin, a Jamaican high school senior who has several difficult decisions to make and each one has lasting consequences. Each situation requires more and more of Franklin. At the end of it all, what will be left? The way Hall…

In advance of their latest project, Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It, powerhouse creative couple Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney were gracious enough to sit down for a blog interview with me. My questions covered various topics including advice for budding creatives, what’s been keeping them…

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS — Prior to Ocean Springs native, Tonisha Kimble, moving back home to Ocean Springs this summer there was only one Black owned book store located in the state of Mississippi (Jackson). …