{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Charles Waters","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/charles-waters","author_name":"Charles Waters","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/charles-waters","description":"Charles Waters is an author, children\u0026#39;s poet, anthologist, actor and educator. His book Mascot (co-written with Traci Sorell) won many awards including the the American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor and the Jane Addams Children\u0026#39;s Book Award Honor. His books (co-written with Irene Latham) include: Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship; Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes and Anecdotes from A–Z; African Town; winner of the Scott O\u0026#39;Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Be a Bridge; and the anthologies The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets and If I Could Choose A Best Day: Poems of Possibility.\n\nHe believes poetry for young people is one of the world\u0026#39;s greatest inventions alongside the creation of fire, the wheel and various breakfast foods.\n\nhttps://www.charleswaterspoetry.com/","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/author/297262/3120e233-5c6f-427d-a722-571b14b87ca8.jpg","thumbnail_width":237,"thumbnail_height":240}