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(0)Marilyn Nelson
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew...
3) Snook alone
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
Author
Publisher
Namelos
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 87 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poetry illustrated in the poet's own words--with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her work--this exquisite collection takes readers back in time and deep into the mind's eye of Marilyn Nelson. A girl ponders being free-but-not-free. Orphaned brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his time and into ours. The voices of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial 19th century Manhattan village are rising again. One of America's most honored...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 Worlds Fair. She was...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
103 Pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Halfdan Rassmussen was born in Copenhagen in 1915 and fought in the Danish resistance during the German occupation. This is a selection of his children's poetry translated into English.
12) Manger
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that describes how, at midnight on Christmas Eve, all creatures are granted the power of speech for one hour. In this collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and a dozen other poets imagine what responses they might offer.
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of works by poets and illustrators of diverse backgrounds sharing memorable childhood and family experiences and reflecting on their different heritages, traditions, and beliefs.