Slickcatbooks - Microblog

Shelby Steele

2025-12-09T16:24:20-05:00

January 1, 1946 -
African-American author, columnist and filmmaker
Author of "The Content of Our Character", "A Dream Deferred" and "White Guilt"

Nalo Hopkinson

2024-02-08T23:34:04-05:00

December 20, 1960 -
Jamaican-born Canadian novelist, short story writer and editor
Author of "Brown Girl in the Ring" (for which she won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1999), "Skin Folk" and "Falling in Love with Hominids"

Steven Biko

2024-02-05T06:58:49-05:00

December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977
South African anti-apartheid activist and writer
Author of "I Write What I Like" and "The Testimony of Steven Biko"
Was murdered by the police for his anti-apartheid views
Was a leader in the Black Consciousness Movement
Also published as Frank Talk

Adeline Yen Mah

2023-11-05T02:10:33-05:00

November 30, 1937 -
Chinese-American author and physician
Author of "Falling Leaves", "Chinese Cinderella" and Watching the Tree"

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Sue Miller

2023-11-05T01:58:12-05:00

November 29, 1943 -
American novelist and short-story writer
Author of "The Good Mother", "While I Was Gone" and "The Senator's Wife"

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Eric Hill

2023-09-22T02:19:42-04:00

September 7, 1927 - June 6, 2014
English author and illustrator of children's books
Author of "Where's Spot", "Spot Goes to the Farm" and "Spot Says Goodnight"

Gloria Jean Pinkney

2023-09-14T04:23:58-04:00

American author of children's books
Author of "Back Home", "Sunday Outing" and "In the Forest of Your Remembrance: Thirty-Three Goodly News Tellings for the Whole Family" (all of which were illustrated by her husband Jerry Pinkney)

Bernard Most

2023-09-13T17:08:13-04:00

September 2, 1937 -
American children's book author and illustrator
Author of "If the Dinosaurs Came Back", "My Very Own Octopus" and "The Littlest Dinosaurs"

Ed Young

2021-12-15T06:21:43-05:00

November 28, 1931 - September 29, 2023
Chinese-born American illustrator and author of children's books
Author of "The Emperor and the Kite" (written by Jane Yolen and for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1967), "Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China" (for which he was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1990) and "Seven Blind Mice" (for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1992)

Jeremy Siegel

2021-11-10T12:40:03-05:00

November 14, 1945 -
American professor of finance and author
Author of "Revolution on Wall Street: The Rise and Decline of the New York Stock Exchange", "Stocks for the Long Run" and "The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New"

Wing Tek Lum

2021-11-08T17:54:21-05:00

November 11, 1946 -
American poet and real estate agent
Author of "Expounding the Doubtful Points" (for which he won an American Book Award in 1988) and published in "Fire in the Sea: An Anthology of Poetry and Art" and "Bold Words: A Century of Asian-American Writing"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

2021-11-08T17:49:25-05:00

November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907
American writer, poet, critic and editor
Author of "The Story of a Bad Boy", "Marjorie Daw" and "An Old Town by the Sea"

Carlos Fuentes

2021-11-08T17:20:05-05:00

November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012
Mexican novelist and essayist
Author of "Auro", "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "The Old Gringo"
Won the Mexican National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1984
Awarded the National Order of Merit of France in 1992
Born Carlos Fuentes Macias

W. E. B. Griffin

2021-11-08T17:09:09-05:00

November 10, 1929 - February 12, 2019
American military and detective novelist
Author of 38 novels including "Semper Fi", "The Lieutenants" and "By Order of the President"
Born William Edmund Butterworth, III
Published under 11 other pseudonyms and 3 versions of his real name

Neil Gaiman

2021-11-08T16:50:06-05:00

November 10, 1960 -
English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction and films
Author of "Good Omens", "Stardust" and "Coraline" as well as comic book series "The Sandman"

Sir Muhammed Iqbal

2021-11-08T11:58:33-05:00

November 9, 1877 - April 21, 1938
Pakastani poet, philosopher, politician and academic
Author of "The Development of Metaphysics in Persia", "Asrar-i-Khudi" and "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam"
Known as Allama Iqbal

James Jones

2021-11-06T19:27:29-04:00

November 6, 1921 - May 9, 1977
American novelist
Author of "From Here to Eternity" (for which he won the National Book Award in 1952), "The Thin Red Line" and "The Merry Month of May"

Microblog Minute: Henry O. Flipper

2018-02-27T19:21:00-05:00

For Black History Month, Slick Cat Books honors the life of Henry O. Flipper. Henry was the first African American to graduate from West Point.

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Microblog Minute: Sarah Breedlove

2018-02-27T19:04:00-05:00

For Black History Month, Slick Cat Books honors the life of Sarah Breedlove. Best known as Madame C. J. Walker, she created a beauty empire and became one of America's first self-made millionaires!

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Microblog Minute:Ashley Bryan

2018-02-27T16:58:00-05:00

For Black History Month, Slick Cat Books honors the life of Ashley Bryant. An artist and philosopher, Ashley Bryan has persevered throughout his life to fill his world with beautiful art!

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Microblog Minute: Langston Hughes

2018-02-27T16:42:00-05:00

For Black History Month, Slick Cat Books honors the life of Langston Hughes. A poet and author, Hughes was one of the powerful voices of the Harlem Renaissance!

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Microblog Minute - Harriet Tubman

2018-02-27T11:58:00-05:00

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Microblog Minute: Virginia Hamilton

2018-02-17T19:00:00-05:00

Slick Cat Books and Black History Month celebrates Virginia Hamilton! For other videos, check out our YouTube Page!

Microblog Minute #1 Ruby Bridges

2018-02-12T17:02:00-05:00

One minute celebrating the books of Black History Month!

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“Tundra” Day 4!

2018-01-05T09:58:00-05:00

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“Tundra” Day 4!

2018-01-05T09:58:00-05:00

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Happy New Year from the “Tundra”!

2018-01-04T08:35:00-05:00

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Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson

2017-11-13T17:42:00-05:00

Today's microblog celebrates the birthday of the famous writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Always a sickly child, Robert wrote stories throughout his childhood and actually his first piece at 16. His health problems continued through his adult years and at 28, he had his teeth pulled and replaced with a wooden set. RLS wrote some of out favorite stories including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and included in our collection, A Child's Garden of Verses! Stevenson died of a stroke at the age of 44 in Samoa.

Fun fact: He came up with an early idea for a sleeping bag!

Early African Americans: Benjamin Banneker

2017-11-09T16:40:00-05:00

Today's microblog celebrates the birthday of a little known early American named Benjamin Banneker. He was born on today's date, November 9, 1731 near Baltimore, Maryland. While there is some disputed versions of his ancestry, he was a free black man growing up in early America. He did receive some education from a Quaker school but was mostly self taught. He excelled in mathematics and astronomy. As a young man, he constructed an irrigation system for the family farm and constructed a working and accurate wooden clock. He was part of a group that surveyed the land for what became our nation's capitol, Washington, DC. His knowledge of the stars led him to write and publish an almanac and he even wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1791 to encourage him to ensure racial equality. Banneker died in his home on October 9, 1806. People like Benjamin Banneker are important in our nation's history and Slick Cat Books salute their memory. Check out a book about his life in our collection.

Little Golden Books turn 75 years old!

2017-10-12T18:30:00-04:00

Today's #microblog celebrates the 75th birthday of Little Golden Books! This series has brought so much joy to kids for seven decades and are still going strong! We have many #LittleGoldenBooks in our collection. #booknerd

Check out this fabulous story by The Journal Times on the history of Little Golden Books!

Click the photo to see our entire Little Golden Book Collection!