The Jacksonville Public Library wants to invite you to a Lit Chat Interview with #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Kwame Alexander at the Main Library on January 10, 2023, at 7 PM.

Kwame and debut artist/sculpturist Dare Coulter will be interviewed by Rahman Johnson about Kwame’s book An American Story, a bold children’s picture book that explains American slavery through the voice of a teacher who is struggling to help her students understand its place in history.

Alexander and Coulter’s An American Story helps educators and parents/caregivers start the conversation around slavery. Told through lyrical writing and stunning illustrations, the powerful, multilayered narrative and images that Alexander and Coulter have produced will take educators, parents/caregivers, and young people from fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, to eventual emancipation.

Visit jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/7671762 to register.