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Andrea Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author
of many books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels,
works of historical fiction and non-fiction.
Andrea’s novels include With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America
series, and Bird in a Box, hailed by the New York Times as “a powerful middle
grade novel” told with “tenderness and verve.”
Andrea’s picture books include Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting
Down, a Parenting Publication Gold Medal winner, winner of the Jane Addams Book
Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award for historical works for young people, the
Anne Izard Storyteller’s Award, and the Flora G. Stieglitz Strauss Award for
Nonfiction; Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride, a Jane Addams Honor Book and
School Library Journal “Best Book of the Year,” the Coretta Scott King Author
Honor Book, Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, which also
won the Carter G. Woodson Award for historical works for young people; and Duke
Ellington, a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
Brian Pinkney
Acclaimed artist Brian Pinkney is the illustrator of several highly-praised
picture books including The Faithful Friend, In the Time of the Drums, and Duke
Ellington . He is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and holds a master's degree in illustration from the School of
Visual Arts in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife
Andrea, with whom he often collaborates, and his two children.
Brian has won numerous awards including two Caldecott Honors, four Coretta Scott
King Honors and a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Boston Globe/Horn Book
Award. He has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago, Cedar Rapids
Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The
School of Visual Arts, and The Society of Illustrators.
He has been published by Greenwillow Books, Hyperion Books for Young Readers,
Little, Brown and Company, Feiwel & Friends, Harcourt Children's Books, Simon &
Schuster, and Random House. His work has also appeared in New York Times
Magazine, Women's Day, Business Tokyo, Ebony Man, and Instructor.
The Pinkney's live in New York City with their two children.
Hand
in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
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Reading level: Ages 9 and up
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (October 23, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423142578
ISBN-13: 978-1423142577
Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
Winner 2013 Corretta Scott
King Author Award
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America presents the stories of ten
men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to
provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible,
fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects’ childhood influences, the time
and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and
the legacies they left for future generations as links in the “freedom
chain.” This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject,
punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by
two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award
recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline,
sources, and further reading.
Profiled:
Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass,
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, A.
Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson,
Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King, Jr Barack H. Obama II
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book
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Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition (February 3,
2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316070165
ISBN-13: 978-0316070164
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.4 x 12.1 inches
Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)
It was February 1, 1960.
They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.
A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.
This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the
momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students
staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for
racial equality and the growing civil rights movement.
Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story of these
four young men, who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful
protest and dared to sit at the "whites only" Woolworth's lunch counter.
Brian Pinkney embraces a new artistic style, creating expressive paintings
filled with emotion that mirror the hope, strength, and determination that
fueled the dreams of not only these four young men, but also countless
others.
Sojourner
Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
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Reading level: Ages 5 and up
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (November 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786807679
ISBN-13: 978-0786807673
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
Born into slavery, Belle had to endure the cruelty of several masters before
she escaped to freedom. But she knew she wouldn't really be free unless she
was helping to end injustice. That's when she changed her name to Sojourner
and began traveling across the country, demanding equal rights for black
people and for women. Many people weren't ready for her message, but
Sojourner was brave, and her truth was powerful. And slowly, but surely as
Sojourner's step-stomp stride, America began to change.
Duke
Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
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Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Jump At The Sun; 1st edition (April 29, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786801786
ISBN-13: 978-0786801787
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
Grade Level: K and up
Awards, Coretta Scott King
Illustrator Honor Books, Caldecott Honor Book
The award-winning author/illustrator team of Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian
Pinkney--creators of the popular picture book "Alvin Ailey"--now present a
swinging, vibrant picture book about the jazz composer Edward Kennedy
Ellington, better known as "Duke" Author/illustrator publicity .
Alvin
Ailey
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Reading level: Ages 5 and up
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (September 5, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786810777
ISBN-13: 978-0786810772
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
Series: Reading Rainbow Books
A young reader's portrait of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey considers
what the young Alvin might have thought and said and interposes facts about
his life and dance theater.
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
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Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH; 1 edition (March 11, 2002)
ISBN-10: 0786805684
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.5 x 0.4 inches
Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo
Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal
innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a
century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author
Andrea Davis Pinkney has told Ella's inspiring story in the voice of Scat
Cat Monroe, a feline fan whose imagined narrative sings with the infectious
rhythms of scat. Two-time Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkney's dramatic
perspectives and fantastical images offer a jazzy improvisation all their
own.
Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
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Reading level: Ages 9 and up
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Yearling (January 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679890068
ISBN-13: 978-0679890065
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.4 x 7.6 inche
In that special half-hour of twilight—the dark-thirty—there are stories to
be told. Mesmerizing, suspenseful, and breathtakingly original, these tales
make up a heart-stopping collection of lasting value, a book not quickly
forgotten.
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
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Robert D. San Souci (Author), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 5 and up
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Aladdin (January 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2914692285
ISBN-13: 978-0689848889
Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.1 x 0.2 inches
You may think you know this story I am going to tell you, but you have not
heard it for true. I was there. So I will tell you the truth of it. Here.
Now.
With the Might of Angels (Dear America Series)
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Reading level: Ages 8 and up
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Inc. (September 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545297052
ISBN-13: 978-0545297059
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Series: Dear America
Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a
brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement.
In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside
down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie
learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only
one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave the comfort of all
that is familiar to face great uncertainty in the school year ahead.
However, not everyone supports integration and much of the town is outraged
at the decision. Dawnie must endure the harsh realities of racism firsthand,
while continuing to work hard to get a good education and prove she deserves
the opportunity. But the backlash against Dawnie's attendance of an
all-white school is more than she's prepared for. When her father loses his
job as a result, and her little brother is constantly bullied, Dawnie has to
wonder if it's worth it. In time, Dawnie learns that the true meaning of
justice comes from remaining faithful to the integrity within oneself.
Bird in a Box
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (February
14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316074020
ISBN-13: 978-0316074025
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
Grade Level: 3 and up
In a small upstate New York town during the Great Depression, three children--Hibernia, Willie, and Otis--are about to meet.
Each of them is looking for hope, and they all find it in the thrilling boxing matches of young Joe Louis. They know Joe has a good chance of becoming the country's next heavyweight champion. What they don't know is that during this unforgettable year, the three of them will become friends.
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