Pub Date: May 7, 2024
Dewey: 398.2096894
Lexile Code: 0540
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 02 to 05
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 6.90" L x 6.30" W ( 0.85 lbs) 40 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Birds
Quiz #:0000066794 ( Beautiful Blackbird)
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Reading level: 3.70 |
Interest level: LG |
Point value: 0.5 |
Description: With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.
Brief description: Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and he shared the joy of song with children. A beloved illustrator, he was named a Newbery Honoree for his picture book, Freedom Over Me. He also received the Coretta Scott King--Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, was a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. His books include Freedom Over Me; Sail Away; Beautiful Blackbird; Beat the Story-Drum, Pum Pum; Let It Shine; Ashley Bryan's Book of Puppets; and What a Wonderful World. He lived in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine.