Alice Faye Duncan, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-733208-7
On a steamy, summer day in the city-effectively evoked in Geter's (Dawn and the Round To-It) intentionally hazy but occasionally static oil paintings-Willie Jerome sits on the roof and blows his trumpet. ""Mama say he be up there making noise. I say
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Alice Faye Duncan, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator, Monica Stewart, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80476-2
In this sweet-natured picture book, a boy plays go-between, bringing together his two older neighbors, ""neat as a pin"" Miss Viola and ""junky as a pack rat"" Uncle Ed Lee. Miss Viola's grass is always cut, her shrubs trimmed and her picket fence...
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Alice Faye Duncan, Author, J. Gerald Smith, Illustrator, J. Gerard Smith, Photographer Bridgewater Books $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3502-0
Located in downtown Memphis at the Lorraine Motel-the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder-the National Civil Rights Museum serves as the backdrop for Duncan's (Willie Jerome) concise, accessible history of the civil rights movement (see Children'
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Keith Mallett. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6359-2580-7
“Worn track shoes tell the story” of track and field Olympian Willye White (1939–2007) in a biographical picture book conveyed via a mix of direct quotations, poems, and images. Born in Mississippi, White was raised by her maternal grandparents, who
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Charly Palmer. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-68437-979-8
In this absorbing collection of profiles—including of parents and children, farmers, students, and the ghost of a lynched Black man, Thomas Brooks—Duncan illuminates the grassroots Fayette County Tent City Movement in late-1950s Tennessee, which...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6626-8004-5
Blending poetry and prose to chart the path of Coretta Scott King (1927–2006), Duncan and Christie portray a person who was formidable from her earliest years. A timeline that employs various poetic forms is interspersed with richly rendered scenes...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Xia Gordon. Sterling, $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4549-3088-4
In sturdy free verse, Duncan (Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop) celebrates the life of Gwendolyn Brooks, an African-American poet whose gifts emerged while she was very young. Brooks’s parents allow her to skip chores to work on her writing, but,
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Chris Raschka. Eerdmans, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5553-4
A Black child named Bo Willie goes to feed his pet, Yellow Dog, and discovers that “My puppy love... was gone” in this picture book introduction to the musical history behind the Delta Blues. On the dog’s tail, Bo Willie heads down the Mississippi...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow. S&S/Millner, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-6183-3
In this much-needed picture book about nontraditional families, Carol Olivia Clementine, a light-skinned black child, lives with Mama Rose, a darker-skinned black woman, “miles away” from Carol Olivia’s parents. Though Carol Olivia misses her...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Keturah A. Bobo. Thomas Nelson, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4002-3125-6
Duncan introduces Opal Lee (b. 1926), a Black activist and storyteller known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” because of her work to make Juneteenth a nationally recognized holiday, including—per back matter—her cross-country U.S. walk to collect...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Paul Kellam. WaterBrook, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-57826-1
A whole barnyard makes noise “in the spirit of joy” throughout this raucous picture book, a sweetly heartwarming sing-along by Duncan. Big Baby, a smiling, brown-skinned child, runs outside after breakfast, keeping to a morning schedule that starts...
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Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62979-718-2
Duncan relays the story of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike, which was triggered after two black sanitation workers died when their poorly maintained truck malfunctioned. After the incident, Mayor Henry Loeb refused to meet the demands of the...
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