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Author: Elizabeth Alexander ,
Marilyn Nelson ,
Floyd Cooper
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Imprint: Boyds Mills Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.60cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 27.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781590784563
ISBN 10: 1590784561
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 01 September 2007
Recommended Age: From 6 to 9 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
* A glorious poetic celebration of the teacher and students at a Connecticut school that defied mid-19th-century convention to educate African-American girls. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review * The images in their poems and in Cooper's quiet, dramatic pastel illustrations compellingly capture the haunting history. --Booklist, starred review Deftly crafted, interweaving colloquial and lofty language; reading aloud will emphasize the sonorous strength of the language, while the individual perspectives suggest possibilities for reader's theater. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Book
Cooper's soft pastel illustrations provide a muted counterpoint to the text, mixing depictions of school and students with images of the natural world in a lovely rhythm. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"★ ""A glorious poetic celebration of the teacher and students at a Connecticut school that defied mid-19th-century convention to educate African-American girls."" —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ ""The images in their poems and in Cooper's quiet, dramatic pastel illustrations compellingly capture the haunting history."" —Booklist, starred review ""Deftly crafted, interweaving colloquial and lofty language; reading aloud will emphasize the sonorous strength of the language, while the individual perspectives suggest possibilities for reader's theater."" —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"
* The images in their poems and in Cooper's quiet, dramatic pastel illustrations compellingly capture the haunting history. -- Booklist, starred review
Cooper's soft pastel illustrations provide a muted counterpoint to the text, mixing depictions of school and students with images of the natural world in a lovely rhythm. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Deftly crafted, interweaving colloquial and lofty language; reading aloud will emphasize the sonorous strength of the language, while the individual perspectives suggest possibilities for reader's theater. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Book * A glorious poetic celebration of the teacher and students at a Connecticut school that defied mid-19th-century convention to educate African-American girls. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review * The images in their poems and in Cooper's quiet, dramatic pastel illustrations compellingly capture the haunting history. -- Booklist, starred review
Author Information
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, and the author of four books of poems for adults, including American Sublime, one of three finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and an ALA Notable Book of the Year. She is a professor of African American literature and culture at Yale University. Dr. Alexander lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Marilyn Nelson is a past poet laureate of the state of Connecticut and a three-time National Book Award finalist. She is the author of two award-winning books for young people, Carver: A Life in Poems and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem. She lives in East Haddam, Connecticut. Floyd Cooper (1956–2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.
