Product Description: A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award–winner Ashley Bryan.The great African-American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African-American artist Ashley Bryan, who’s spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea...read more

Product Description: World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military...read more

Product Description: Quiet . . .like a quilt on a feather bed . . .and frost on the window . . .we write our names knowing . . .the sun will melt them offBut the sun is so quiet . . .that we don't carewe smile―from Connie by Nikki GiovanniThe quiet and noisy, wintery and sometimes sunny poems in The Sun Is So Quiet will always make you smile...read more

Used- Good Condition-All Pages, Binding and Cover in Tact. Clean-Kept in Smoke Free Environment.

Product Description: Used- Good Condition-All Pages, Binding and Cover in Tact. Clean-Kept in Smoke Free Environment.

Product Description: I’m Going to Sing is a collection of spirituals songs brought to life from award winning children’s book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan. Lovingly updated and with a foreword from Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, recipient of the 2011 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for lifetime achievement, this edition includes favorites songs accompanied by linocut illustrations that capture the strength and spirit of the music...read more

Product Description: This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. . It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption...read more

Product Description: Spider Ananse gets Granny started dancing so he can raid her garden--but his own trick "does him in."