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We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart

Name: We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart
Brand: HarperCollins
SKU: 9780060523107
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Contributors:

Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers (Illustrator)

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Juvenile Nonfiction

Book Subcategory:

Poetry, History, People & Places

Book Topic:

United States

Audience:

Ages 9-12

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Release Date:

2015-05-26

ISBN 13:

9780060523107

Weight:

0.4 lbs

Size:

10.00 x 11.07 x 0.10 inches

Pages:

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We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart - An Award-Winning Picture Book

This acclaimed picture book from Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers explores the essence of American identity through stunning panoramic paintings and historically rich text. The father-son team behind the Caldecott Honor Book Harlem delivers a powerful visual and literary journey through America's complex story.

What Makes This Book Special

The book features passionate writings and vivid portraits spanning American history, from Shawnee chief Tecumseh to Abraham Lincoln to Jimi Hendrix. Through graceful, lyrical prose paired with evocative paintings, readers encounter the struggles, ideals, and ongoing hope that define the American experience. The Washington Post praised it as paying "tribute to the variety of America as well as to its promise," while the New York Times called it "an inclusive, unblinkered variation of patriotism."

Ideal for Classroom and Home

Designed to spark questions and engage students, particularly in third through fifth grade, this picture book serves as an excellent educational resource. The sweeping panoramic artwork combined with text rich in historical allusion makes it perfect for discussions about American history, diversity, and national identity. Teachers and parents will find it valuable for exploring complex themes of revolution, progress, and possibility with young readers.

About the Creators

From a father-son team comes a gorgeous picture book that "pays tribute to the variety of America as well as to its promise--in Christopher Myers's words, 'the question mark of it.'" (Washington Post) "An inclusive, unblinkered variation of patriotism." (New York Times)

With sweeping panoramic paintings and text rich with historical allusion, this stunning picture book features passionate writings and vivid portraits of political Americans, from Shawnee chief Tecumseh to Abraham Lincoln to Jimi Hendrix. This is a book to share at home or in the classroom, sure to spark questions and engage students, especially in third through fifth grade.

New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers celebrate the freedom dream that is America: our struggles, our ideals, and our hope that we can live up to them. What is it to be an American? To live in a strange and beautiful land of complexity, with a tumultuous history of epic proportions, among the people who were here first, who came after, who will come tomorrow.

Over the centuries, from a blank canvas of mountains, plains, and canyons, the American landscape has been richly carved by revolution, progress, and possibility. Yet its story is still being written.

With graceful, lyrical prose and evocative paintings, Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers, the father-son team who created Harlem, pay tribute to the spirit and soul that is America.

About the Author
Myers, Christopher: -

Christopher Myers is a graduate of Brown University and the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Studio Program. He is the acclaimed illustrator of Love: Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings; Harlem: A Poem, a Caldecott Honor Book; Jazz, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Blues Journey, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. He is also the author-illustrator of Black Cat and H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination, both Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books; We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart; A Time to Love: Stories from the Old Testament; Looking Like Me; Wings; and Fly!

Myers, Walter Dean: -

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart

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