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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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An incredibly moving picture book biography of the man behind the hymn "Amazing Grace" and the living legacy of the song. Caldecott Honorwinning author Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison. One stormy night at sea, a wayward man named John Newton feared for his life. In his darkest hour he fell to his knees and prayed and somehow the battered ship survived the storm. Grateful, he changed his ways and became a minister,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could and sent us into the world with confidence and love. Told...
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Language
English
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Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
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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 from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
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English
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Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Black History Month - Children
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Black History Month - Children
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
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"This powerful adaptation of the popular spiritual chronicles the milestones, struggles, tragedies,and triumphs of African American history."--Provided by publisher.
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