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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston - Hardcover

by Alicia D. Williams
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alicia D. Williams, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2021-01-12Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum BooksISBN-13:9781534419131ISBN-10:1534419136UPC:9781534419131Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, People & PlacesBook Topic:Literary, Women, United StatesSize:11.10 x 10.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SCKNXSVG4Y
From the Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature.

Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn't been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked...until Zora. Until Zora jumped.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum BooksISBN-13:9781534419131ISBN-10:1534419136UPC:9781534419131Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, People & PlacesBook Topic:Literary, Women, United StatesSize:11.10 x 10.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SCKNXSVG4Y
Alicia D. Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again, which received Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent; and picture books Jump at the Sun and The Talk which was also a Coretta Scott King Honor book. An oral storyteller in the African American tradition, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Jacqueline Alcántara is the illustrator of the critically acclaimed The Field and Freedom Soup. Her favorite days are spent drawing, painting, writing, and walking her dog. In 2016, she was awarded the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Illustrator mentorship. Find out more at JacquelineAlcantara.com.
Publisher: Atheneum Books

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Alicia D. Williams, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illustrator)

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