A biography as a picture book, what a fun way to get students interested in learning about history? What an amazing way to tell the story of those who made a difference? In this story readers will learn about John Roy Lynch, his life, his accomplishments, and the sacrifices along the way. In the s...
Genre: History / Biography / African American / Racism / LibraryYear Published: 2009Year Read: 2011Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers I have read many children’s books that deal with the racism that many African-Americans had to face during the 1950s, but I have actually come upon a book...
The art has a very free flowing feeling like listening to Jazz. The colors are bright, vivacious and fun to follow. The story is not one with much action but imagination. It is fun to read the words of how Duke Ellington and his jazz entourage might have been told to play the musical suite in ja...
Tempting though it may be I am not going to extrapolate from these letters, not to authors at large, not to anything. This is a collection of letters from mostly still quite young authors, offering advice, encouragement, support, and insight to their younger selves. Everyone had bears to cross, some...
This book joins others in an effort to lend depth and breadth to the African American biography selection. Biography of vital yet less mythical figures is an important movement in historical fiction. Traylor's outsider art is an obvious inspiration for Christie's folk art style. Christie avoids mimi...
I checked out this book to read the Sara Zarr letter. Each letter is short and easy to read. Enjoyable, not life alterting but I enjoyed the ones I read.
"And yes, It does get better.Much better" Anthologies are not something that I enjoy but I came across Dear Teen Me during Zest Books Blog Tour.There were a lot of positive reviews and I thought I'd give it a try.Dear Teen Me i a collection of letters from YA authors to their younger selves.I loved ...
Bill Traylor was eighty-one years old when, out of the blue, he began to draw. He'd saved up memories of a lifetime, memories of Sunday morning church services and swimming in the river with his friends and picking cotton on the farm, and he suddenly began to draw little pictures of fighting cats an...
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