Carole Boston Weatherford
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as...
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GORDON PARKS: HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURED BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he...
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GORDON PARKS: HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURED BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he...
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How Sweet the Sound (HB)
An incredibly moving picture book biography of the man behind the hymn “Amazing Grace” and the living legacy of the song by New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison.One stormy night at sea, a wayward man...
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How Sweet the Sound (HB)
An incredibly moving picture book biography of the man behind the hymn “Amazing Grace” and the living legacy of the song by New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison.One stormy night at sea, a wayward man...
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IN YOUR HANDS
A black mother expresses the many hopes and dreams she has for her child in this powerful picture book masterpiece that’s perfect for gift-giving.When you are a newborn,I hold your hand and study your face.I cradle you as you drift...
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Legendary Miss Lena Horne (HB )
Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African American actress and civil rights activist, with this inspiring and powerful picture book from award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford.You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that...
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MOSES
I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free... Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape....
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R - E - S - P - E - C- T Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul Hardcover
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award! From a New York Times bestselling and ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award–winning author and an acclaimed illustrator comes this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves.Aretha Franklin was...
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RESPECT (Carole Boston Weatherford HB)
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award! From a New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed illustrator comes this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves.Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The...
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Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her earliest days in her father’s Detroit church where her soaring voice spanned more than three octaves.Her string of...
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SCHOMBURG: THE MAN WHO BUILT A LIBRARY
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art...
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual (HARDCOVER)
This inspirational book encapsulates African American history and invites conversations at all levels. Stretching more than four hundred years, this book features pivotal moments in history, such as the arrival of enslaved people in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619; Nat Turner's...
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual (PAPERBACK)
This inspirational book encapsulates African American history and invites conversations at all levels. Stretching more than four hundred years, this book features pivotal moments in history, such as the arrival of enslaved people in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619; Nat Turner's...
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SUGAR HILL: HARLEM'S HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children...
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THE ROOTS OF RAP: 16 BARS ON THE 4 PILLARS OF HIP-HOP
The roots of rap and the history of hip-hop have origins that precede DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash. Kids will learn about how it evolved from folktales, spirituals, and poetry, to the showmanship of James Brown, to the culture...
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THE ROOTS OF RAP: 16 BARS ON THE 4 PILLARS OF HIP-HOP
Explore the roots of rap in this stunning, rhyming, triple-timing picture book! Product details Publisher : little bee books; Illustrated edition (January 8, 2019) Language: : English Hardcover : 48 pages ISBN-10 : 1499804113 ISBN-13 : 978-1499804119 Reading age : 4 years and up Lexile measure...
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