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As Big as the Sky (Hardcover)
Carolyn Rose; Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
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R417
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
Save R74 (18%)
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What happens when a brother and sister who share a love as big as
the sky must separate? In a small African village in Malawi, Prisca
and her brother, Caleb, work together and play together, chasing
each other as fast as they can. But when Caleb has to leave home to
attend a good school, Prisca misses him terribly. Hoping to earn
enough money to visit him, Prisca begs a local peddler to sell her
crafts - but no one buys what she’s made. However, thanks to
Prisca’s kindness and compassion, her dreams of reuniting with
Caleb come true. This heartwarming story set in an African village
shows that, with a little generosity, there’s always a way to
come together.
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit
by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money
for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library .
. . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village.
Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill
out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who
harnessed the wind.
Lyrically told and gloriously illustrated, this story will inspire
many as it shows how - even in the worst of times - a great idea
and a lot of hard work can still rock the world.
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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Poems in the Attic (Hardcover)
Nikki Grimes; Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
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R624
R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
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During a visit to her grandma s house, a young girl discovers a box
of poems in the attic, poems written by her mother when she was
growing up. Her mother s family often moved around the United
States and the world because her father was in the Air Force. Over
the years, her mother used poetry to record her experiences in the
many places the family lived. Reading the poems and sharing those
experiences through her mother s eyes, the young girl feels closer
to her mother than ever before. To let her mother know this, she
creates a gift: a book with her own poems and copies of her mother
s. And when she returns her mother s poems to the box in the attic,
she leaves her own poems too, for someone else to find, someday.
Using free verse for the young girl s poems and tanka for her
mother s, master poet Nikki Grimes creates a tender
intergenerational story that speaks to every child s need to hold
onto special memories of home, no matter where that place might
be."
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