William Miller, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-880000-14-4
At times effectively mottled, at other times hauntingly distinct, Van Wright and Hu's (Make a Joyful Sound) commanding watercolor paintings are the high point of this book, which recounts an episode in the childhood of the African American author of
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William Miller, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-880000-48-9
""Belinda didn't like her house by the river"": the African American girl dislikes crawling underneath the porch where the chickens like to lay eggs, and she is apprehensive of the river, which periodically threatens to leap the flood wall--she...
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William Miller, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-030-4
Gr 2-4-Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree (Lee & Low, 1994) has been selected as a Reading Rainbow Book. The Spanish-language edition published by Lee & Low is excellent. This biography depicts a young Zora growing up in Eatonville, FL....
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William Miller, Author, John Ward, Illustrator, Rosa Parks, Concept by Lee & Low Books $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-880000-60-1
Miller (Richard Wright and the Library Card) offers a streamlined, fictional account of the Montgomery, Ala., bus strike--inspired by Rosa Parks's pivotal act of courage. Each morning, young Sara and her mother sit at the back of the bus, on their...
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William Miller, Author, Leonard Jenkins, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201897-9
Miller (Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree) offers a poetic, plaintive story about the Barbados-born slave who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem trials of 1692. After enduring the terrors of a voyage to Boston in the hold of a ship,...
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William Miller, Author, Susan Keeter, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-880000-98-4
Set in the early 1900s, Miller's (Night Golf) ultimately tender story opens on an unconvincing note. Tia, an African-American girl, loves music so much that ""when she heard music, she forgot where she lived, how old she was, and where she went to...
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William Miller, Author, Charlotte Riley-Webb, Illustrator , illus. by Charlotte Riley-Webb. Lee & Low $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-025-0
Miller's (Night Golf) spryly narrated, uplifting story set in New Orleans in the 1930s springs from an intriguing tradition—informal musical fund-raising parties that originated in the South in the early 20th century to help neighbors in...
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William Miller, Author, Cedric Lucas, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-880000-17-5
The success of this penetrating book lies in Miller's (Zora Hurston and the China-berry Tree) ability to convincingly convey the abolitionist Frederick Douglass's thoughts and feelings during his formative years as a plantation slave; and in Miller's
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William Miller, Author, Roberta Glidden, Illustrator Gibbs Smith Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87905-634-6
Towered over by rabbits and toads, a tiny African American man longs to be ""the biggest, the loudest, the meanest creature in all the forest."" He asks a horse how he got to be so big; although he follows the horse's advice ""to eat buckets of corn
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William Miller, Author, Gregory Christie, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880000-57-1
Miller's (Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree) narrative fictionalizes a pivotal incident recounted in Richard Wright's 1945 autobiography, Black Boy. Born into a poor family that moved often, Richard longs for books but has little access to them: "
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William Miller, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880000-33-5
Van Wright and Hu ""neatly capture the emotions in this lucidly told story,"" said PW of this retelling of an episode from the childhood of the well-known African American author. Ages 4-up. (Feb.)
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William Miller, Author, John Ward, Illustrator, Rosa Parks, Introduction by , illus. by John Ward, intro. by Rosa Parks. Lee & Low $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-026-7
"In accessible language, Miller offers a streamlined, fictional account of Rosa Parks's pivotal act of courage, with Ward's closely focused, acrylic paintings," wrote PW. Ages 4-up. (May)
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William Miller, Author, Cedric Lucas, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880000-79-3
Set in the 1950s, this inspiring picture book stars an African-American boy whose love of golf helps him rise above the racial prejudice that would keep him off the links. When young James discovers a rusty, cast-off golf club in the trash, nothing...
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