Ellington Was Not a Street
Black & Bookish is the brainchild of Antoinette Scully, educator and lover of all things bookish. She is on a quest to fill your bookshelves with beloved authors of the African Diaspora. When she's not hanging out on line, she's living it up as the mother of two rambunctious girls and wife of a local filmmaker. [1]
Summary
Pros
The illustrations and the feel of each picture was lovely. The original poem reads as a sad remembrance but the illustrations make it a joyous story. As we read progress through the poem we would see more and more faces pile into the home. Every face was warm and kind, and the readers would felt it straight away. It was a wonderful primer for introducing these figures to our children. Nelson shows them laughing and singing, in the throws of passionate conversations. If we use this and other books like this as the starting point for Black History, not just the speeches and the terror, then we give our children a thoughtful account of what our lives were like. [1]
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange (Book Review). Retrieved February 9th, 2021
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman. Retrieved February 9th, 2021