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Stephen Costanza’s King of Ragtime is featured in a video for Black Children’s Book Week

02 Mar 2022

King of Ragtime (Simon & Schuster) by Stephen Costanza is one of the books featured in the Black Children’s Book Week Read Aloud. Veronica N. Chapman, founder of Black Baby Books, launched the first annual Black Children’s Book Week, a week to extend Black History Month and celebrate Black children and the Black-authored books that represent them. The pre-recorded real aloud of the book features award-winning educator Jashonai Payne, with a performance of some of Scott Joplin’s compositions by award-winning pianist, Gil Scott Chapman!

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