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They Call Me Teach
Teach learns to read alongside his master’s son and transfers this knowledge through forbidden tutorials to enslaved men, women, and children. Lesa Cline-Ransome’s free verse narrative in Teach’s hushed voice opens on Monday and closes with lifted voices at Sunday School. As the congregation reads the biblical lines “Let My...
Review of They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp. 9/24 9780763681555 $18.99 This poetic picture book tells the inspiring tale of a young enslaved man, “a compilation of many of the real-life stories of the people who resisted, fought,...
Review of One Big Open Sky
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome Intermediate, Middle School Holiday 240 pp. 3/24 9780823450169 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823457496 $10.99 In 1879, Lettie’s African American family begins a westward journey from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nebraska, where her father seeks a better life for them. “We can’t live free / on...
Blowing the Horn: What Hope Is
When my first picture book was published over two decades ago, I had simply hoped to bring the story of one relatively unknown Negro League baseball pitcher to young readers. I wasn’t a fan of baseball, so I was pretty sure that was the reason I’d never heard of this...
Review of Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. RansomePrimary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp.1/24 9781534496620 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534496637 $10.99The prolific author-illustrator couple (most recently The Story of the Saxophone, rev. 1/23) teams up again to offer this inspiring picture-book biography of the late human rights...
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Review of Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by Kaylani Juanita Primary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp. 9/23 9781534463523 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781534463530 $10.99 Born in 1924 Brooklyn to immigrant parents (from Guyana and Barbados) who worked in low-wage jobs, Chisholm was attuned from a young age...
Review of For Lamb
For Lamb by Lesa Cline-RansomeMiddle School, High School Holiday 304 pp.1/23 9780823450152 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455034 $11.99Lamb, shy protagonist and one of several narrators, tells of growing up in 1940s Jackson, Mississippi, with her brother, Simeon, and Marion, their tough-as-nails mother, a talented and outspoken seamstress and closeted lesbian. Lamb keeps...
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Review of The Story of the Saxophone
The Story of the Saxophone by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. RansomePrimary Holiday 40 pp.2/23 9780823437023 $19.99e-book ed. 9780823442225 $10.99Perhaps no instrument is more associated with jazz than the saxophone. And no city more tied to both than New Orleans. But the history of the saxophone (originally saxophon), engagingly...
Review of Being Clem
Being Clem [Finding Langston] by Lesa Cline-Ransome Intermediate, Middle School Holiday 256 pp. g 8/21 978-0-8234-4604-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4896-8 $10.99 In the final installment of the trilogy (Finding Langston, rev. 9/18; Leaving Lymon, rev. 3/20), we are (re)introduced to Chicago-born Clemson Thurber Junior. Too young to remember his father,...
More Than a Footnote: Challenges for BIPOC Nonfiction Authors
For as long as I can remember, I have had three loves: jazz, poetry, and history. Those passions merged in my 2000 nonfiction title The Sound That Jazz Makes — a manuscript that was rejected more than a dozen times. The book’s first review was so negative that I cried....
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