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Review of The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People

The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by E. B. LewisPrimary    Calkins/Astra  32 pp.1/26    9781662680311    $19.99As an opening note explains, this book’s text is drawn from one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last public speeches, which he delivered in 1967 to...
      

Review of Blues Boy: The B. B. King Story

Blues Boy: The B. B. King Story by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by Carl Joe WilliamsPrimary    Greenwillow    40 pp.1/26    9780063334021    $19.99Riley B. King (1925–2015) was born in Mississippi, during the era of segregation. Life wasn’t easy for him: his mother died when he was nine, and he struggled with a...
      

The Writer's Page: Born in Babylon: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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Duncan in third grade. Photo courtesy of Alice Faye Duncan. When I consider my thirty years writing picture books and poetry that honor Black achievement, I know that the template for this life began in 1975 while I read crisp new library books about Harriet, Rosa, and Martin. I know...
      
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Review of Yellow Dog Blues

Yellow Dog Blues by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by Chris Raschka Primary     Eerdmans    32 pp.     g 9/22     978-0-8028-5553-4     $18.99 This book about a lost dog is also a musical and cultural journey along the Mississippi Blues Trail. Duncan’s (Just like a Mama, rev. 3/20) freewheeling narrative...
      

Five questions for Alice Faye Duncan

Alice Faye Duncan’s picture book Just like a Mama (Millner/Simon, 3–7 years), illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, explores the special bond between a young girl and her “right now” caretaker Mama Rose, who is “just like a mama to me.” The story was inspired by Duncan’s own family and is...
      

Review of Just like a Mama

Just like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow Preschool, Primary    Millner/Simon    32 pp. 1/20    978-1-5344-6183-3    $17.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-6184-0    $10.99 An homage to all the African American women who are mothering children not biologically their own. Carol Olivia Clementine lives with Mama Rose because “Mommy...
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