Standing in the Need of Prayer
A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2022
Summary
From an award-winning author and critically acclaimed artist comes a stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual “Standing in the Need of Prayer.” The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American history. A perfect gift or timeless keepsake!
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE LEGACY AWARD WINNER CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593306345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593306341 |
| Author: | Carole Boston Weatherford, Frank Morrison |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Crown Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A richly illustrated, informative picture book that will leave readers humming and spark a desire to learn more.” - The Horn Book , starred review
★ “A richly illustrated, informative picture book that will leave readers humming and spark a desire to learn more.” —The Horn Book, starred review
★ “Gorgeous and enlightening, nourishing both mind and soul.“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Truly elegant.“—Booklist, starred review
★ “An evocative use of prayer as old-school protest with a history lesson that is as lilting as a ballad.” —School Library Journal, starred review
★ “Weatherford and Morrison successfully elevate a classic song, rendering it as relevant and profound across time.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
”A love letter to the Black community…The book is a lesson, a tribute and an inspiration that should work as both an excellent read-aloud and potential sing-along.” —Shelf Awareness
About The Author
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, a Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, and the author of Unspeakable- The Tulsa Race Massacre, which won the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, a Caldecott Honor, and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor book Box- Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom; and the Caldecott Honor books Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom- Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses- When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Born in Baltimore, Weatherford now teaches at Fayetteville State University, in North Carolina.
Frank Morrison started his journey as a graffiti artist in New Jersey, tagging walls with spray paint. It wasn’t until he visited the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Sugar Hill Gang’s dance entourage that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, SCOPE Miami Beach, and Red Dot art fairs, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Mason Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta. He is the illustrator of over twenty children’s books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award winner Jazzy Miz Mozetta, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor books Little Melba and Her Big Trombone and Let the Children March. Frank was a Society of Illustrators Original Art Silver Medal Honoree two years in a row, for The Roots of Rap and R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
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