Pigskins to Paintbrushes
The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
$26.93
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2021
Summary
He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the field-that was an art.
Young Ernie Barnes wasn’t like other boys his age. Bullied for being shy, overweight, and uninterested in sports like boys were “supposed” to be, he instead took refuge in his sketchbook, in vibrant colors, bold brushstrokes, and flowing lines. But growing up in a poor, Black neighborhood during the 1930s, opportunit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781419749438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1419749439 |
| Author: | Don Tate |
| Publisher: | Abrams |
| Imprint: | Abrams Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 279mm |
| Audience Age: | 6-10 |
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Critics Review
“Tate weaves Barnes’ own voice into his smoothly told narrative, to great effect. Will inspire young readers to stay true to themselves.”
Tate weaves Barnes’ own voice into his smoothly told narrative, to great effect. Will inspire young readers to stay true to themselves. * Kirkus Reviews *
Tate’s tale illuminates the structural and social obstacles Barnes faced—from intense peer pressure to the adult Barnes’s longed-for first trip to an art museum, where he was told “your people don’t express themselves this way”—and clearly highlights the idea that there need be no division of interests between arts and sports. * Publishers Weekly *
The nicely composed mixed-media collage illustrations establish the twentieth-century settings while capturing the stages of Barnes’ life. An expressive, engaging picture-book biography. * Booklist *
It is impossible to tell the story of a Black American artist born in the 1930s without discussing segregation and racism, and Tate weaves those threads seamlessly into his narrative, drawing particular attention to the moment when Barnes exhibits his work at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a place where he had once been told by a docent that “your people don’t express themselves this way.” * The Horn Book Magazine *
Don Tate
Don Tate is an award-winning author and the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children, as well as a founding host of The Brown Bookshelf. His accolades include two Ezra Jack Keats Awards and an honor, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Lee & Low New Voices Honor, and a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List selection, among many others. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Tate currently resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.
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