Championing LGBTQ+ Stories for Young Adults: An Interview with Simon James Green on Winning a Diverse Book Award, "Boy Like Me," and the Power of Representation
31 October, 2024
Following the 2024 Diverse Book Awards, we reached out to young adult author, Simon James Green, who won the Readers’ Choice Award in the YA category for 'Boy Like Me'.
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun"
31 October, 2024
I have found during my years in the classroom, that poetry is one of the most effective ways of eliciting original and perceptive responses about a text with pupils. Take this Keats line for example, how many different mists are imagined in the room when discussing it with a class of thirty 14-year-olds? And what can we say about mist? Shrouding? Mysterious? Illuminating? Beautiful? A carefully curated collection of poetry that supports both the primary and secondary curriculum is now available with myON from Renaissance.
