Kadir Nelson
3) Baby Bear
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As Baby Bear tries to find his way home through the forest, he asks many different woodland creatures for help and finds that much of their advice is more comforting than helpful.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
Author
Language
English
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Black History Month 2023 Children
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
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JEF - Black Voices (Children)
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Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Language
English
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JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator
JEF - Women's History (Children)
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator
Description
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
14) Coretta Scott
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
This extraodrinary poetic text captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honros its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Poetry - April (Children)
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator
JEF - Poetry - April (Children)
MCL - Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator
Description
In this reflective poetic tribute, the author remembers growing up when many of the great figures in African-American history gathered in her family home to talk and share ideas and even sing.
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