![]() "And I think that's what I was trying to do through this dog." "It's a good thing if you can try and hold on to that feeling," Salati says. Hot Dog is about carrying that feeling of peace and contentment – whether it's a place, or the company of loved ones – with you. ![]() ![]() these people that have found freedom in the middle of enslavement." She says the magical realism elements of her book help transport her young readers: it "takes them to a new place where they can kind of hear the voices of. "I always felt that, especially in touching on African American history, that we have to have a space where we allow our feet to sort of lift off the ground and to fly," she tells Elizabeth Blair. But Luqman-Dawson says she wanted to infuse that history with magic. The setting of Freewater was inspired by the real-life Great Dismal Swamp, where self-emancipated, formerly enslaved people found refuge. The historical fiction novel revolves around two enslaved siblings' escape from a plantation to a free swamp community called Freewater. ![]() The Newbery Medal, which the American Library Association awards to the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year, went to Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson. The top children's book awards were handed out Monday morning, at the American Library Association's annual Youth Media Awards. ![]()
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