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Open today from 12pm to 9pm • March 21, 2010

The Brown Bookshelf wants to improve your bookshelf

February can seem to drag on even though it’s the shortest month. The holidays are over, but it’s still freezing cold. Luckily, the five authors and illustrators at The Brown Bookshelf have started a campaign that should really brighten up this month. The first twenty-eight days of February, they will feature a new African American author or illustrator of children’s and young adult’s books that you may not have heard of.

The campaign is called 28 Days Later as a reference to the aftermath that we will all experience after these African American talents are unleashed on the world. The first author is Christopher Paul Curtis, who wrote Elijah of Buxton. Check www.thebrownbookshelf.com every day in February for a new author or illustrator.