Catherine Clinton, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-89599-3
In this well-chosen collection, Clinton, an author and editor of women's history books for adults, chronologically presents work by 25 poets, from Lucy Terry and Phillis Wheatley to Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen to Maya Angelou and Alice Walker.
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $20 (120p) ISBN 978-0-15-201005-8
Pinkney (Silent Thunder) presents eloquent portraits of 10 intrepid African-American activists for the causes of abolition, women's rights and civil rights. Exploring these individuals' childhoods as well as their accomplishments as adults, the...
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Powerful quotations from 366 revered artists, writers, political figures and other visionaries mark every day of the calendar year along with striking block-print portraits (Elvis is shown with a burning sacred heart) in this elegantly packaged book.
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Gary L. Blackwood, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-45863-0
A myriad of anachronisms mar this predictable tale of a Yorkshire orphan. Widge, the 14-year-old narrator, is sent by a rival theater manager to steal the as-yet-unpublished Hamlet in 1601 London and ends up an apprenticing actor instead. Blackwood (
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Lee Bennett Hopkins, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator Orchard $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-34096-0
From the mountains to the prairies to the... Jersey shore? Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together 15 original works in Home to Me: Poems Across America, illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Contributors include Jane Yolen, Janet S. Wong and Hopkins himself....
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