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Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Charles R. Smith, Jr. and I take pictures and write children’s books for a living. Some of you may have heard of my books about basketball and some of you may have never heard of me at all. It doesn’t matter because there’s something here for everybody. I am constantly updating the site, so if you’ve been here before check out the What's New links on the right.

I have tried to make my site as fun and informative as possible so hunt around! Want to play a game? Click on the basketbell at the top of the page and see if you can get it in the basket!

As more of my books come out and more projects come along I will be adding more to the site for you to see. Now that you’ve been here once, I want to be sure that you come back! Enjoy!

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Brick by Brick

"An excellent title that provides an admirably accurate picture of slavery in America for younger readers."
-KIRKUS Review

And check out the write up in the NY Times Book Review
   
Stars in the Shadows

“Writing in snappy rhymed couplets, Smith delivers a play-by-play, inning-by-inning account of the second annual East-West Classic, held in Chicago in 1934, an all-star face-off between the best players from the Negro League.”
– Publisher's Weekely
   



Black Jack

“This book is sure to be championed by reluctant readers with energy and restlessness just like Johnson's, but it is a strong selection for library and classroom read-alouds as well.”
– School Library Journal
 


Pick Up Game

“Such luminaries as Walter Dean Myers, Bruce Brooks, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Robert Lipsyte examine the ways in which players, wannabes, and hangers-on interact in the vibrant, freewheeling subculture of inner-city playground hoops.”
– School Library Journal
 

 

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