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Andrea Davis Pinkney
Stephen Alcorn
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Let It Shine
Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Andrea Davis Pinkney Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

    9780152010058 Hardcover
015201005X
$20.00
120pages
Available
Trim Size: 8-1/2 x 10-1/2
Copyright Year: 2000

Territory: World
All Ages

Synopsis
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
The lives these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in--even when it feels like no one is listening. Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women who lit the path to freedom for generations.


Biography

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the author of numerous award-winning picture book biographies. A former editor at Essence Magazine who now edits children's books, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Stephen Alcorn is an acclaimed painter and printmaker who has created artwork for a number of anthologies. He lives in Cambridge, New York.


Stephen Alcorn  Web Site  

Awards
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, NCSS
Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Text
Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book

General Subjects
Juvenile Nonfiction- Biography & Autobiography/People of Colo
Juvenile Nonfiction- Biography & Autobiography/Political

Curriculum Themes
Accelerated Reader
Biography/Autobiography
Cultural Diversity
History- General
Images of Strong Women
People & Places: African American Intere
Politics & Government
Short Stories & Story Collections
Social Situations- Prejudice & Racism
Social Studies- Civil Rights

Rights Details
Rights Holders: B/T/M: Harcourt
P: Text: Kirchoff/Wohlberg
Art: Harcourt

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Gulliver Booksis an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books
A Division ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
A Harcourt Education Company