The Call to Shakabaz Wins Mom’s Choice Awards for Book and Audio Book
The Mom’s Choice Awards have just announced that The Call to Shakabaz by Amy Wachspress is a Silver Award Recipient 2009 in the Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction category. Simultaneously, the audio book of The Call to Shakabaz, produced by Legacy Audio Books, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, received... - January 31, 2009
Action-Filled Children’s Fantasy Featuring Black Characters and Positive Message Released in Audio Book
A terrific romp with cross-generational appeal, The Call to Shakabaz, just released in audio book, demonstrates the fundamental principles of nonviolence as practiced by Dr. King and Gandhi within the context of a real cliff-hanger that has the reader hooked from the beginning all the way to the unexpected, magical climax. - October 01, 2008
Action-filled Children’s Fantasy Featuring Black Characters and Positive Message Awarded Best Juvenile Fiction 2008 by BAIPA
The Call to Shakabaz by Amy Wachspress has received a Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) 2008 Award for Best Juvenile Fiction. - April 07, 2008
Action-Filled Children’s Fantasy Featuring Black Characters and Positive Message Receives USA Book News Best Books 2007 Recognition
The Call to Shakabaz by Amy Wachspress is an award-winning Finalist in the children’s fiction category of the USA Book News Best Books 2007 book awards. This is the third national award for this unusual gem of a read. In The Call to Shakabaz, the recently orphaned Goodacre children travel... - November 13, 2007
What Happened to the Black Kids?
There are almost no children's and young adult fantasy adventure books with Black characters in them and we need more. - April 06, 2007