New Blood Entry — Hip Hop is Lit
Award: Wood Pencil
Penguin / 2021
By publishing hip hop as literature, Penguin invite new members to the closed club of literature. Changing the rules for what it means to be literary.
In partnership with Spotify, teaching tools are developed to help, nudge, and guide teachers to embrace this new addition to the curriculum.
When anyone can be literary, books will be for everyone.