As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden
listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the
whistle of the train that took his people to the North-people who
wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched
out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those
scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using
that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the
jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey describes the
patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's
window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City.
Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their
visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and
the human experience. Elizabeth Zunon's illustrations of painted
scenes blended with collage are a stirring tribute to a remarkable
artist. My Hands Sing the Blues is the recipient of the 2012 IRA
Childrens and Young Adults Book Award-Primary Non-Fiction, as well
as the gold winner of a Moonbeam Children's Book Award in the
category of Picture Book-All Ages.
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