Illustrator’s agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. By Patricia Hruby PowellIllustrated by Christian RobinsonCoretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, HonorRobert F. Goodreads members who liked Josephine: The. Author’s agent: Anna Olswanger, Liza Dawson Associates. Find books like Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker from the world’s largest community of readers. Although Powell’s focus is on Baker, the contrast between segregated America and welcoming France will not be lost on readers. Robinson’s naif, folk-style figures look like puppets, and make some grim moments easier to endure (“Those ugly rumors incited some white folks/ to beat, murder, and burn black East St. Louis childhood surrounded by music to her triumphs all over Europe-followed, sadly, by debt and illness. Baker’s entire life spreads out in this tapestry of words, from a St. Of Missouri, poor and dreaming about dancing. Louis to the grandest stages in the world.
Josephine Baker Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor s and collections to check out. Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Powell (Frog Brings Rain) chooses a potent metaphor for Baker’s hidden anger: “hot magma, molten lava, trapped within.” When Baker arrived in France, the country embraced both her artistry and her blackness, and “Her deep volcanic core-filled with emotion, filled with music-erupted.” Robinson (Rain!) draws round faces gazing with amazement at the woman onstage whose pearl necklace flies one way and whose hips swing the other. Right here, we have countless books Josephine The Dazzling Life Of. Segregated American clubs were willing to let African-American dancer Josephine Baker (1906–1975) perform, but they wouldn’t let her use the front door.
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