![]() ![]() Collier’s long final note explains his interpretation of the poem, and with adult help, kids can look closely at what the pictures show about the porters then and now as well as Collier’s visual themes, including the recurring use of stars and stripes, which culminate in a beautiful, final close-up of a boy with his mother staring through a train window today at the starry city sky. She has acquired and edited a number of New York Times bestselling, award-winning, and critically acclaimed books over the course of her publishing career. The final, contemporary pages show young black people celebrating their place in America and dreaming of a bright future. Executive Editor Zareen Jaffery joined Kokila in January 2020, and will continue to publish books across age groups. Carried by the wind, the words and music fall into the hands of African Americans across the country. When the passengers leave, the porters gather left-behind items-newspapers, blues and jazz albums-and toss them from the train. She enjoys picture books that explore themes of discovering identity and navigating feelings nonfiction about. and she is passionate about stories that inspire curiosity and empathy in young readers. The publisher is contributing thousands of adult and childrens books in EPUB (electronic publication) format including award-winning titles and annotated. The collage spreads, blending oil paintings and cut paper, begin with an image of a speeding train before moving on to large portraits of African American porters serving white passengers aboard a luxury train. Paula Wiseman Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing that, since 2003, has published many award-winning and. 811.Ī celebration of Pullman porters is the focus of this new picture-book edition of Langston Hughes’ classic poem. Hughes, Langston (Author), Collier, Bryan (Illustrator) Publishers Weekly, March 5, 2012, *STAR ![]() It’s a powerful metaphor for looking at African-American history-and the issue of race in America-from the inside out. In the next spread, he’s seen in startling closeup, parting and peering between the stripes of an all-but-invisible American flag. The story travels from South to North and from old to new, ending in Harlem, where a contemporary African-American mother rides in a subway car, her son gazing out the window. Collier’s portraits of the porters at work alternate with bold, sweeping spreads of cotton fields, onto which a porter scatters discarded books and magazines, planting knowledge along the railway lines. Hughes’s lines-“They send me to eat in the kitchen/ When company comes,/ But I laugh,/ And eat well,/ And grow strong”-fit beautifully with the story of the porters, giving the poem new meaning and impact. ![]() Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2008-3Ĭaldecott Honor artist Collier (Dave the Potter) uses Hughes’s well-known poem as text for a visual history of Pullman railway porters, one of the first jobs that offered African-American men steady pay, dignity, and a ladder into the middle class. Boss Bunny), he also encounters a super VILLAIN: a rat who goes by the name of Whiskerface.Langston Hughes, illus. Find new book releases, best sellers lists and see when your favorite author is making their next appearance.Simon & Schuster Canada is your one stop online book store for book and author news. Turbo the hamster is the official classroom pet of Classroom C at Sunnyview Elementary…and he has a top secret identity as Super Turbo, crime-fighting superhero! He can’t believe it when he finds out he’s not the only superpet in town (or in school)! As he meets fellow superpets, such as Angelina the guinea pig (a.k.a. In this first installment of the Super Turbo graphic novel series, the classroom pets of Sunnyview Elementary band together to form a Superpet Superhero League to fight the crime that is all around them! Can they defeat the evil rat pack threatening their school? ![]()
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