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We Are Shining

We Are Shining( )
Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
Illustrator: Gilchrist, Jan Spivey
ISBN:978-0-06-257066-6
Publication Date:May 2017
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperCollins
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $17.99
Book Description:

Life is for us, and is shining. We have a right to sing.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving and life-affirming poem about acceptance and opportunity. In this story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it.

Accompanied by vibrant and stunning artwork from Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Jan Spivey Gilchrist, this picture...
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Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / African American & Black
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.19 x 10.296 x 0.39 Inches
Book Weight:0.704 Pounds
Author Biography
Brooks, Gwendolyn (Author)
Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. She graduated from Wilson Junior College in Chicago in 1936 and received her L.H.D. (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Columbia College in 1964. She was the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Children Coming Home, Blacks, To Disembark, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems, Riot, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and A Street in Bronzeville. In 1950, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen. She wrote numerous other books including a novel, Maud Martha, Report from Part One: An Autobiography, a book of poetry for children Bronzeville Boys and Girls, and several children's fiction books. She was named Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968. She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She died on December 3, 2000.

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