Penny Candy Books hopes to use its press to start big conversations for youth and families.
books
Posted inArts & Culture
Land Run Antique Show brings vintage treasures to Bricktown
The show is July 15-16 at Cox Convention Center.
Posted inMusic
Oklahoma jazz guitarist and renaissance man Maurice Johnson makes a career putting his knowledge to print
Johnson performs as part of the Rooftop Terrace music series July 6 at Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Posted inArts & Culture
Children’s writer Mariana Llanos opens students up to language through books and classroom visits
The Peruvian-born author moved with her husband to Oklahoma 15 years ago.
Posted inArts & Culture
Oklahoma actor Richard Ray Whitman reconnected with his past at Wounded Knee while shooting Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Whitman starred alongside Dave Bald Eagle, who died in July 2016.
Posted inNews
Cover Story: Fall from grace: Tate publishing authors speak out
“The public needs to know about this,” Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said as he ended the May press conference announcing that criminal charges had been filed against Richard and Ryan Tate.
Posted inArts & Culture
Children’s Garden Festival brings The Very Hungry Caterpillar to life
The event at Myriad Botanical Gardens celebrates the book first published in 1969.
Posted inArts & Culture
A local author chronicles the lives of 10 African-American women
Ordinary Extraordinary African American Woman: The Elder was recently published by Jewell Jordan Publishing.
Posted inArts & Culture
Oklahoma City children’s author Gwendolyn Hooks wins an NAACP Image Award
Hooks won in the Outstanding Literary Work for Children category for her book about medical pioneer Vivien Thomas.
Posted inArts & Culture
Russell Westbrook puts up big numbers for education with his 19th elementary reading room
The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard has 16 Russell’s Reading Rooms around OKC and three in Los Angeles.