J. Brian Pinkney

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1) The dream keeper and other poems

Author

Hughes, Langston

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

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A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.

2) Sit-in: how four friends stood up by sitting down

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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"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."--Amazon.com.

3) Martin and Mahalia: his words, her song

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Publisher

Little, Brown and Co

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description

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Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.

4) Hand in hand: ten Black men who changed America

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Publisher

Disney/Jump at the Sun

Pub. Date

[2012]

Language

English

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Coretta Scott King Award Winners

5) Let's clap, jump, sing, & shout; dance, spin, and turn it out!: games, songs, & stories from an African American childhood

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Schwartz & Wade Books

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Description

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From Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkney comes an extraordinary must-have collection of classic playtime favorites. This very special book is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families and will inspire joy in all who read it. Parents and grandparents will delight in sharing this exuberant book with the children in their lives. Here is a songbook, a storybook, a poetry...

6) Martin rising: requiem for a King

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Description

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In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.

7) The faithful friend

Author

San Souci, Robert D

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

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A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.

8) The lost zoo

Author

Cullen, Countee

Publisher

Silver Burdett Press

Pub. Date

1992.

Language

English

Description

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Poems explain why animals such as the Wakeupworld, the Squilililigee, the Sleepamitemore, and the Treasuretit did not get onto Noah's Ark, and are therefore not seen in any zoo today.