Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson's award-winning books include Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, which won the Coretta Scott King Award and was an ALA Notable Children's Book; and Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, which received an NAACP Image Award. Mr. Nelson lives in San Diego, California, with his...
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Kadir Nelson's award-winning books include Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, which won the Coretta Scott King Award and was an ALA Notable Children's Book; and Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, which received an NAACP Image Award. Mr. Nelson lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and two daughters.
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Lexile Level: AD150L This picture book by Kadir Nelson has a great message about kindness and would be wonderful to introduce to students at the beginning of the school year. The book describes how we can plant seeds of selfishness or kindness which will grow into either fruits of trouble or fruit...
This not only balanced the action of a racist regime actively trying to keep minorities down but also the more personal stories: Miles' crush on a poet, and fellow student, named Alicia. (She's black as well, which is only important because one of their teachers is pretty openly and grossly racist...
I'll post a review closer to the pub date, but this was pretty intense. Surprisingly deep look at race for a YA Spider-Man book.
I recently used this book with a boy I was tutoring and we both loved it. He wanted to read it over and over again. I take that as a good sign. Salt in His Shoes is a book about Michael Jordan when he was young and had a dream to play basketball. Michael becomes discouraged when he misses the winnin...
Gorgeous illustrations as always from Kadir Nelson, but in addition to that, IF YOU PLANT A SEED has a wonderful message about sharing. There is one illustration of their birds looking at the mouse and rabbit that I love!! You can totally read their expression saying, "Hey, can we have some of that?...
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