Extras Watch Vaunda discuss writing about her heroes on New Mexico’s PBS program, Colores. Read about Don’t Call Me Grandma on Betsy Bird’s Fuse #8 blog. Read a Bookology review of Vaunda’s work by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root. Watch Vaunda and R. Gregory Christie accept the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award. Vaunda and illustrator R. Gregory Christie collaborate on The Book Itch Watch the book trailer for No Crystal Stair. Read Vaunda’s article “Mind the Gaps: Books for ALL Young Readers”. Vaunda with National Memorial African Bookstore mural created by students at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, 2018 Drawing by Anabelle “Lizzie” Bui — Washington Elementary School (Berkeley, CA) 2019