So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story

by , Illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey
List Price: $19.99
Clarion Books (May 06, 2025)
Picture Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover, 32 pages
    ISBN: 9780063081147Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Description of So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story

    The celebrated author of Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Nell Plants a Tree and a Caldecott Honor artist come together for a poetic picture book introduction to Juneteenth and its origin.

    Oh, how you would dance! How you would sing! How you would celebrate!

    With lyrical text from Anne Wynter and radiant artwork from Jerome Pumphrey, this poetic picture book explains the history behind Juneteenth celebrations. So Many Years simultaneously acknowledges the history of slavery in the US as well as the astonishing Black resilience that has led to an enduring legacy of Black joy.

    image from the book Oh, how you would celebrate…