Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth (Häftad)
avAnne Rockwell, R. Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9780440417668 - UTGIVEN: 2002-12As a former slave and abolitionist activist, Sojourner Truth went around the country in the late 19th century to tell her tale of struggle and survival in order to let others know the brutal truth about slavery and the importance of freedom for all. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.[...]
Roots and Blues: A Celebration (Inbunden)
avArnold Adoff, R. Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9780547235547 - UTGIVEN: 201101Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantatio[...]
Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood (Inbunden)
avCarole Boston Weatherford, R. Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9780807576502 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02Take 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 raised in Sugar Hill not on[...]
Keep Climbing, Girls (Inbunden)
avBeah E. Richards, R. Gregory Christie, Lisagay Hamilton
ISBN: 9781416902645 - UTGIVEN: 2006-01"The only way to make a bid
for a girl's equality is to climb right up to the
toppermost bough
of the very tallest tree."
The dynamic ode to girl power was written by noted Afro-American actor, poet, and playwright Beach E. Richards. First published in 1951, her poem is given new li[...]
When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat (Inbunden)
avMuriel Harris Weinstein, R. Gregory (ILT) Christie, Muriel Harris Weinstein
ISBN: 9780811851312 - UTGIVEN: 2008-12When a young girl dances with her mother to a Louis Armstrong record, she wonders about the nonsense words she hears him singing. "Scat?" she asks. "What's that?" The answer comes to her in her dreams, when the great Satchmo himself arrives to teach her how to sing about any old thing, even bubble g[...]
