Download or read book Tar Beach written by Faith Ringgold and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”
Download or read book Cassie s Colorful Day written by Faith Ringgold and published by Crown Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a special day for Cassie. Her daddy's taking her out for a surprise treat. As she gets dressed, she chooses many colorful items: her yellow-and-red polka-dot dress, purple shoes, a green pocketbook. What's the surprise? He's taking her to the ice cream parlor, with its blueand-orange sign. Cassie orders her favorite--a pink strawberry sundae!
Download or read book We Came to America written by Faith Ringgold and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed artist and Caldecott-winning picture book creator Faith Ringgold shares an inspiring look at America's lineage in this stunning ode to our country--past, present, and future. America is a land of diversity. Whether driven by dreams and hope, or escaping poverty or persecution, our ancestors--and the faces of America today--represent people from every reach of the globe. And each person brought with them a unique gift--of art and music; of determination and grit; of ideas and strength--that forever shaped the country we all call home. Vividly evoked in Faith Ringgold's sumptuous colors and patterns, WE CAME TO AMERICA is an ode to every American who came before us, and a tribute to the children who will carry its message into our future.
Download or read book Counting to Tar Beach written by Faith Ringgold and published by Crown Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count all the good things from one to ten that Cassie and her family take to the rooftop for their scrumptious picnic on Tar Beach. Lemonade, chickens, watermelons, and chocolate chip cookies are just some of the things they're going to enjoy. Toddlers will love learning to count with this delicious introduction to numbers.
Download or read book Aunt Harriet s Underground Railroad in the Sky written by Faith Ringgold and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cassie Louise Lightfoot encounters Harriet Tubman and a mysterious train in the sky, what follows is a compelling journey in which the author masterfully integrates fantasy and historical fact (School Library Journal, starred review). Full color.
Download or read book We Flew Over the Bridge written by Faith Ringgold and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's preeminent African-American artists and an award-winning children's book author shares the fascinating story of her life as she looks back on her struggles, growth, and triumphs in this gorgeously illustrated work. (Memoir)
Download or read book Radiant Child written by Javaka Steptoe and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean—and definitely not inside the lines!—to be beautiful.
Download or read book Faith Ringgold written by Curlee Raven Holton and published by Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important new book published to coincide with a major exhibition of Faith Tinggold's new work and Studio collection. While the book explores Faith's work in her studio and her personal artistic journey, it is also an encounter between one artist and another, between Faith and her collaborator Curlee Holton. The mix provides unique insights into the struggles and triumphs of a woman who is at once an activist and an artist and whose achievements are admired throughout the world.
Download or read book Kenturah Davis written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCAD University Press announces the release of Kenturah Davis: Everything that Cannot be Known, the artist's first monograph on the occasion of her first solo museum exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Feb. 6-Dec. 13, 2020. Featuring an insightful preface by Diane Von Furstenberg and an oeuvre-defining essay by curator Humberto Moro, the catalog also includes a conversation between Davis and BOMB Magazine's Stephanie E. Goodalle and poems by Jayy Dodd.Reworking photographs from fact to fiction, Davis uses mark-making processes, including her own handwriting and rubber letter stamps, to explore the impossibilities of representing Black bodies. Often blurred by other layers of material treatment, her figures seem to display auras or traces of movement in areas of raised or recessed relief. Witnessing the works' graphic complexity as a metaphor, the viewer ultimately wonders: can the multitudes of our identities ever be known?
Download or read book The Last Beach written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world's developed beaches, including some in Florida and in Spain, are virtually doomed and that we must act immediately to save imperiled beaches. After explaining beaches as dynamic ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess the harm done by dense oceanfront development accompanied by the construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining, trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space, beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.
Download or read book We March written by Shane W. Evans and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march began at the Washington Monument and ended with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech, advocating racial harmony. Many words have been written about that day, but few so delicate and powerful as those presented here by award-winning author and illustrator Shane W. Evans. When combined with his simple yet compelling illustrations, the thrill of the day is brought to life for even the youngest reader to experience. We March is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Children's Books of 2012
Download or read book If a Bus Could Talk written by Faith Ringgold and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the African American woman and Civil Rights worker, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott, which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
Download or read book Tar Beach written by Arthur Getz and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joey and his sister Teresa find that rooftops make wonderful beaches on hot summer days.
Download or read book Henry Ossawa Tanner written by and published by Bunker Hill Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the life and career of Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to gain international acclaim.
Download or read book The Invisible Princess written by Faith Ringgold and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of a princess who will bring freedom to her parents and all the slaves on the plantation is foretold, and prayers that she'll be safe from the cruel plantation owner are said. At the moment of her birth, the Powers of Nature make the baby invisible, and the Prince of Night whisks her away to safety. Years later she returns to realize her destiny. Full-color illustrations.
Download or read book The Solitude of Ravens written by Masahisa Fukase and published by San Francisco : Bedford Arts. This book was released on 1991 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Solitude of Ravens Masahisa Fukase's work can be deemd to have reached its supreme height; it can also be said to have fallen to its greatest depth ... If we attempted to peek any further into the abyss of solitude revealed ... we would probably end up being abstracted in to a side-sweeping storm or else into a flock of ravens covering the sky."--Akira Hasegawa
Download or read book Bonjour Lonnie written by Faith Ringgold and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American Jewish boy traces his ancestry with the help of the Love Bird of Paris.
