We Are Shining by Brooks, Gwendolyn
We Are Shining by Brooks, Gwendolyn

We Are Shining

From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and...
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Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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We Are Shining by Brooks, Gwendolyn

We Are Shining

$42.41
We Are Shining by Brooks, Gwendolyn

We Are Shining

$42.41
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of the diversity of our world. This life-affirming poem is now illustrated for the very first time, with stunning, vibrant images.

A story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it. Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving poem about acceptance, stressing that every child should have the opportunity for a shining future and offering hope for a better tomorrow.



Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 05/30/2017
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780062570666
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 10/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 pg. 229 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Brooks, Gwendolyn: -

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress--the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha. You can find out more about her at www.gwendolynbrooks.net.

Gilchrist, Jan Spivey: -

Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator-author of seventy-four children's books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, a Junior Library Guild Best Book, an NAACP Image Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book, and a Georgia State Children's Book Award nominee. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.



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