Author

Irene Latham

Biography

Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming books, including two novels for children: Leaving Gee’s Bend and Don’t Feed the Boy. Winner of the 2016 ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, her poetry books for children include Dear Wandering Wildebeest, When the Sun Shines on Antarctica, Fresh Delicious and Can I Touch Your Hair? (co-written with Charles Waters). Irene lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her family where she does her best to “live her poem” every single day by laughing, playing the cello, and walking in the woods.

Be a Bridge
12 Days of Kindness
The Cat Man of Aleppo
Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
Meet Miss Fancy
Love, Agnes: Postcards from an Octopus
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Be a Bridge
12 Days of Kindness
The Cat Man of Aleppo
Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems

Books by Irene Latham

    picture • 40 Pages
    The Cat Man of Aleppo
    Karim Shamsi-Basha, Irene Latham, Yuko Shimizu
    picture • 40 Pages
    Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
    Irene Latham, Sean Qualls, Selina Alko, Charles Waters
    picture • 32 Pages
    Be a Bridge
    Irene Latham, Charles Waters
    picture • 120 Pages
    Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
    Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Mehrdokht Amini
    picture • 32 Pages
    Meet Miss Fancy
    Irene Latham, John Holyfield
    picture • 32 Pages
    12 Days of Kindness
    Irene Latham, Junghwa Park

Book Stats

8
Authored
0
Illustrated
10
Collaborators

All Irene Latham Books

Hardcover
$19.99$18.99
picture • 32 Pages
12 Days of Kindness
Hardcover
$17.99$16.73
picture • 40 Pages
The Cat Man of Aleppo
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems
4.8
Hardcover
$16.99$15.97
picture • 120 Pages
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
Library Binding
$19.99$18.99
picture • 32 Pages
Meet Miss Fancy
Hardcover
$17.99$16.73
picture • 32 Pages
Love, Agnes: Postcards from an Octopus
4.5
Hardcover
$19.99$18.99
picture • 40 Pages
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Library Binding
$17.99$16.97

Collaborators

Karim Shamsi-Basha
Yuko Shimizu
Sean Qualls
Selina Alko
Charles Waters
Mehrdokht Amini
John Holyfield
Junghwa Park
Amy Huntington
Thea Baker

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