Ellington Was Not a Street - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2004-01-01Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689828843ISBN-10:689828845UPC:9780689828843Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:PoetryAward:2005 Coretta Scott King Award Winner - Illustrator Award|2004 Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) Winner - Gold AwardSize:12.22 x 9.30 x 0.39 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCN1NH8DTD
Ellington Was Not a Street
Featuring luminous art by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson, this reflective picture book by poet Ntozake Shange looks back at the great Black thinkers and innovators who visited her father's house. A close-knit group of Black innovators formed their own community in the early to mid-twentieth century. These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin...
Audience: Ages 9-12
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689828843ISBN-10:689828845UPC:9780689828843Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:PoetryAward:2005 Coretta Scott King Award Winner - Illustrator Award|2004 Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) Winner - Gold AwardSize:12.22 x 9.30 x 0.39 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCN1NH8DTD
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was a renowned playwright, poet, theater director, and novelist. Her body of work includes Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Some Sing Some Cry with Ifa Bayeza, and the posthumous Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance and I Am an Old Woman. Among her numerous accolades are the Langston Hughes Medal for...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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🏆 2005 Coretta Scott King Award Winner - Illustrator Award|2004 Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) Winner - Gold Award
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