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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:57:52 -0600
Kathy Isaacs wrote about "the distinctive storyteller's voice of Pinkney's collective biographies...Pinkney's language is richly colloquial; it cries out to be read aloud. And even though this is a book for quite young readers (as well as older ones) she makes up no episodes and invents no dialog for her 'sheroes of human equality.' "
I agree, and I encourage everyone not to skip Andrea Davis Pinkney's fine introduction to the short biographies in "Let It Shine." As Kathy wrote, Pinkney's distinctive voice shines through the biographical information. It will be a loss for young readers if they don't meet the author in the introduction, as well. In three opening pages appropriately titled "This Little Light of Mine," Andrea Pinkney shares personal memories of her childhood and adolescence in a family
"steeped in the heart of social change" during the 1960s and early 1970s. She writes about choosing the ten women to be featured, ten women whose lives could become "one incredible story - a story of the challenges and triumphs of civil rights that spanned American history from the eighteenth century to the present day." She talks about the concept of Freedom as being "more than freedom from slavery. These women fought for many freedoms..." and here she names many freedoms. Freedoms "from" the barriers of sexism, oppression and fear of being silenced. Freedoms "to" live with equality, to choose housing, ride on public transportation, and express oneself in the press and broadcast media.
By illuminating the works of women who "let their lights shine on the darkness of inequality," Andrea Davis Pinkney has shone new light on ten powerful women who should be known to all of all ages in this nation: Sojourner Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells?rnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm.
"Let It Shine" and the novel "Miracle's Boys" deserve attention all year round, not only during Black History Month. - Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 05 Feb 2001 11:57:52 AM CST
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:57:52 -0600
Kathy Isaacs wrote about "the distinctive storyteller's voice of Pinkney's collective biographies...Pinkney's language is richly colloquial; it cries out to be read aloud. And even though this is a book for quite young readers (as well as older ones) she makes up no episodes and invents no dialog for her 'sheroes of human equality.' "
I agree, and I encourage everyone not to skip Andrea Davis Pinkney's fine introduction to the short biographies in "Let It Shine." As Kathy wrote, Pinkney's distinctive voice shines through the biographical information. It will be a loss for young readers if they don't meet the author in the introduction, as well. In three opening pages appropriately titled "This Little Light of Mine," Andrea Pinkney shares personal memories of her childhood and adolescence in a family
"steeped in the heart of social change" during the 1960s and early 1970s. She writes about choosing the ten women to be featured, ten women whose lives could become "one incredible story - a story of the challenges and triumphs of civil rights that spanned American history from the eighteenth century to the present day." She talks about the concept of Freedom as being "more than freedom from slavery. These women fought for many freedoms..." and here she names many freedoms. Freedoms "from" the barriers of sexism, oppression and fear of being silenced. Freedoms "to" live with equality, to choose housing, ride on public transportation, and express oneself in the press and broadcast media.
By illuminating the works of women who "let their lights shine on the darkness of inequality," Andrea Davis Pinkney has shone new light on ten powerful women who should be known to all of all ages in this nation: Sojourner Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells?rnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm.
"Let It Shine" and the novel "Miracle's Boys" deserve attention all year round, not only during Black History Month. - Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 05 Feb 2001 11:57:52 AM CST
