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HarperCollins, 1996-16-08

Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse

Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse

Walter Dean Myers, Author

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9780064434553

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In this beautiful volume, the award-winning author of Scorpions and Now Is Your Time! combines eleven original poems with a selection of turn-of-the-century photographs chosen from his own personal collection. "A celebration of childhood and the African-American heritage".--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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Vintage photographs pair with poetry in this tender tribute to Black childhood, dignity, and joy. A moving visual and lyrical celebration of heritage and humanity.

Keywords and Themes: Activity Books • African American & Black • Beauty • Biography & Autobiography • Celebration • Childhood • Culture • Dignity • Diversity & Multicultural • Family • Games & Activities • General • General (see also headings under Social Topics) • Girls & Women • Heritage • History • History of Science • Identity • Juvenile Nonfiction • Medieval • Photography • Poetry • Representation • Science & Nature

Readability • 4.5

Age Range • 4-8

Pages • 40

Subjects • American poetry • Children's poetry • American • African Americans

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | African American & Black • Juvenile Nonfiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Topics) • Juvenile Nonfiction | Photography • Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books | General • Juvenile Nonfiction | Diversity & Multicultural • Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science • Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | General • Juvenile Nonfiction | Games & Activities | General • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Medieval

The book you are holding was born in the dusty corner of an antique shop where the old photographs are kept. Walter Dean Myers has been collecting turn-of-the-century photographs of African-American children for some time, and his fascination with these intimate portraits compelled him to gather them into an album and share them with us.
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