Author: W. Nikola-LisaPublisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781584302520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun.
Summer Sun Risin'
Author: W. Nikola-LisaPublisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781584302520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun.
Bein' with You This Way
Author: W. Nikola-LisaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781484433676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A poem about human differences and similarities, accompanied by paintings of an interracial group of children sharing a sunny day and the universal childhood joy of just being together.
Summer Sun Risin'
Author: W. Nikola-LisaPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417669905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun.
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
Author: Elphinstone DayrellPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395539637
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Chasing the Rising Sun
Author: Ted AnthonyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416539301
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.
Rainbow Joe and Me
Author: Maria Diaz StromPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584300502
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eloise shares her love of colors with her blind friend Rainbow Joe, who makes his own colors when he plays beautiful notes on his saxophone.
Anna Carries Water
Author: Olive SeniorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781896580609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Anna and her family fetch water from the spring, she wonders when she will learn to carry it on her head like her brothers and sisters.
A Space for Me
Author: Cathryn FalwellPublisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620149638
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Max wants some space for himself away from his younger brother who takes his things and makes noise, but eventually Max finds a way to make space for his brother too"--
I Had a Hippopotamus
Author: Hector Viveros LeePublisher:
ISBN: 9781880000960
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An imaginative boy opens a box of animal crackers and gives his family members a hippopotamus, anaconda, rhinoceros, and other exotic animals.
Ron's Big Mission
Author: Rose BluePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525478493
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage—it is a young man's first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story, based on Ron McNair's life, of how a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.