Pub Date: January 1, 2015
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2014023838
Lexile Code: 0660
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 06 to 09
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 12.00" L x 8.20" W ( 1.00 lbs) 40 pages
Description: Mazie learns the history of Juneteenth and its importance through a story about her grandfather.
Brief description: Award-winning author and illustrator Floyd Cooper is the illustrator of over ninety childrens books. He has received the Coretta Scott King Honor Award three times and the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration in 2009 for The Blacker the Berry. From the Land of Milk and Honey was nominated for a 2013 NAACP IMAGE AWARD for literature, and These Hands was awarded the 2012 Sankei Award in Japan for outstanding illustration. Floyd currently resides in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Velma, and two sons, Dayton and Kai.
Review Quotes: My girl loved the book's gorgeous pictures, and as she learned about the struggles and accomplishments of African Americans throughout our country's history, we were able to talk about such notable trailblazers as Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson and President Barak Obama. She even gave me a lesson about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom she had just spent a month learning about in school. With the help of the book, this June, on the 150th anniversary of the first Juneteenth, Mazie and my little girl will be ready to celebrate together.-- "BookTrib, "3 Spunky heroines to share with your daughter for Women's History Mon"