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Review of Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer
Ann Cole Loweby Deborah Blumenthal;
illus. by Laura FreemanPrimary Little Bee 40 pp.1/17 978-1-4998-0239-9 $17.99 gWhile the fashion world continues to recognize her work, many do not know the name Ann Cole Lowe. Blumenthal and Freeman have teamed up to place the...
Five questions for Andrea Davis Pinkney
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day (Viking, 7–9 years) by Andrea Davis Pinkney is a loving tribute to an iconic picture-book character, Peter — one of the first African American children in picture books — and his creator, Ezra...
A Second Look: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
It was one of those rickety paperback book racks that creak when you turn it. It listed to one side, so I made sure to stand on the side it was leaning away from, in order to see the books better.Spin. Creak. Spin. Creak.I’d read most of these books already....
The Enduring Footprints of Peter, Ezra Jack Keats, and The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats.In the spring of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Ezra Jack Keats cut a series of black-and-white photographs out of Life magazine. The four photos showed a small African American boy in Liberty County, Georgia, reacting to a blood test being administered by a public health nurse. Prior to the test,...
Black History Month 2016: Horn Book articles
HBAS keynote speaker Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.To commemorate Black History Month 2016, we will be sending around articles, speeches, and reviews from The Horn Book archive that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a day through the month of February, with a...
Profile of 2015 Wilder Medal winner Donald Crews
Nina, Donald, and Ann Crews, 2009. Photo: Amy Crews.Looking back on my childhood, it is clear that my parents, Donald Crews and Ann Jonas Crews, gave my sister and me a visual education. They taught us to look at the world and shared with us their passion for visual and...
Review of Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Centuryby Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Raúl ColónPrimary Knopf 40 pp.12/14 978-0-375-85606-8 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-375-95606-5 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-385-39246-4 $10.99Opera singer Leontyne Price didn’t just stand on the shoulders of Marian Anderson, she “blew open the door that Marian left ajar.” Born in 1927 in Laurel,...
Be-bop-a-skoodley!
These new picture-book biographies of African American music pioneers give primary readers something to sing about during Black History Month — and all year long.Seven-year-old Melba Liston chose to learn to play the trombone — an unconventional choice for a girl. By age seventeen, she was touring alongside the jazz...
Black History Month
Aretha, David The Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in PhotographsGr. 4–6 48 pp. EnslowAretha, David The Story of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement in PhotographsGr. 4–6 48 pp. EnslowAretha, David The Story of the Civil Rights Freedom Rides in PhotographsGr. 4–6 48 pp. EnslowAretha, David The...
Books for Black History Month
For Black History Month, we've put together a list of both recommended nonfiction books about important people and events and engaging fiction titles starring African American protagonists. Here's a sampling of those new books to enjoy and share.In his autobiographical graphic novel March: Book One (cowritten by Andrew Aydin), Congressman...
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