Yesterday I just reviewed the book My People that was illustrated to a Langston Hughes poem, so why not another one today? The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes and illustrated by E.B. Lewis is a beautiful book with simply stunning watercolor spreads.
Langston Hughes was just 18 when he composed The Negro Speaks of [...]
I enjoy books that have excellent photography, which is why I was curious about My People by Langston Hughes with photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Hughes 1923 poem is a simple one:
The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the [...]
Do you know who Claudette Colvin is? You do know that Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, don’t you? Read Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose and you will discover this unsung civil rights hero.
In full honesty, I [...]
I have gotten so behind in the number of books that I’ve read but not yet reviewed that I hope you forgive me for failing to write my own summary for The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir by Patricia Harman. From the jacket flap:
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women’s health clinic with her [...]
What happens when you take the infamous Shannon Hale, pair her up again with her husband Dean, and illustrator Nathan Hale (no relation), the retelling of a famous fairy tale, a feisty heroine, a bit of steampunk and wrap it all up in a graphic novel? Calamity Jack! A companion novel to Rapunzel’s Revengee (my [...]
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