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glottus

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:54 am
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I'm looking for some good children's books for Black History Month. Does
anyone have any suggestions?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:23 pm
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Besides biographies and maybe "The People Could Fly," I'm afraid I couldn't
tell you. Though I suppose "Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, & Me,
Elizabeth" might be a good choice - preferably after the (white) kids might
have read it on their own in a previous year, so they can have a chance to get
a real double reading/understanding of it. (I don't know for a fact that a
well-off, sheltered black kid might not "get it" immediately the way many black
kids would, but I suppose that's possible.)

Lenona.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:40 pm
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In <20040215225440.13053.00002277 DeleteThis @mb-m02.aol.com> glottus DeleteThis @aol.com (Glottus) writes:

 >I'm looking for some good children's books for Black History Month. Does
 >anyone have any suggestions?

There are, fortunately enough, so many good books that your request is a
bit broad Smile. Is there a specific age group you have in mind, or perhaps
a specific period or focus that you'd like to explore?

You can find some bibliographies on the web--I just found one of the
longer ones at
<http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/reading/blackhistorykids.html>. You
can also check the ALA site <http://www.ala.org> for winners of the
Coretta Scott King Award.

Some titles that come immediately to mind are:

Marilyn Nelson's _Carver_, a truly brilliant yet accessible and touching
biography in poems of George Washington Carver.

Doreen Rappaport's _Martin's Big Words_, a concise but compelling
biography of Martin Luther King for readaloud and early readalone

Laban Hill's _Harlem Stomp!_, a lively n overview of the Harlem
Renaissance

Dennis Brindell Fradin's _My Family Shall Be Free!_, a story of Peter
Still's journey out of slavery--and journey back to retrieve his family

....and that's only nonfiction and just off the top of my head.


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