Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told - Softcover

Myers, Walter Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060544686 ISBN 13: 9780060544683

Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers, 2015

Synopsis

This picture book biography introduces the extraordinary Ida B. Wells. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans.

An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States.

In this picture book biography, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure, which blends harmoniously with the historically detailed watercolor paintings of illustrator Bonnie Christensen.

"Myers’s unflinching tale highlights Wells’s courage and persistence by using own words and writings throughout, and sharing the many moments of her life when she refused to accept discrimination and raised her voice for justice" (Brightly.com).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman.

Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African-Americans. An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure in this fascinating book, which is illuminated by the historically detailed watercolor paintings of Bonnie Christensen.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

About the Author:

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Bonnie Christensen is a fine artist and printmaker who teaches at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. She has illustrated The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for the Folio Society in London and ten books for children, including Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and Pompeii: Lost and Found.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0060544686
• ISBN 13: 9780060544683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Christensen Bonnie