My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey

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Hardcover
Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Illustrator: Elizabeth Zunon
Publisher: Two Lions
Publish Date: January 2012
Language: English
Reading Level: 3.6
EAN: 9780761458104

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Overview

As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother’s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the North–people who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey describes the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train’s window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden’s collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. Elizabeth Zunon’s illustrations of painted scenes blended with collage are a stirring tribute to a remarkable artist.

My Hands Sing the Blues is the recipient of the 2012 IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award-Primary Nonfiction, as well as the gold winner of a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award in the category of Picture Book-All Ages.

Details

Pages: 40
Dimensions: 10.26 x 9.98 x 0.42 in
Lexile Score: 610
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 0761458107

Awards

2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Gold Medal Winner (Picture Book)