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Know Children Writer XIX: Paula Young Shelton

 Paula Young Shelton is a children’s author and an early childhood educator with nearly 30 years of experience teaching young children. She is a graduate of Duke University (USA) and holds a Masters degree in education from Bank Street College. She was a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., though Shelton wasn’t even a year old when her family moved from New York to the south [of the US] in order to be on the front lines of the civil rights movement.

Some of her books for children include:

·   Child of the Civil Rights Movement

·   Just Like Jesse Owens

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