Brown Honey/Broomwheat Tea

Joyce Carol Thomas

4.1

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9780780761872: Brown Honey/Broomwheat Tea

ISBN 10: 0780761871 ISBN 13: 9780780761872

Publisher: Perfection Learning

In these remarkable poems, Joyce Carol Thomas invites us to share in the love, tradition, and heritage of a young African-American girl and her family. The pride and simple beauty which fill these pages help us all to remember where we came from, to cherish who we are and to affirm our place in the world. This is a book of celebration for all ages to treasure.

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About the Author:

Joyce Carol Thomas is an internationally renowned author who received the National Book Award for her first novel, Marked By Fire, and a Coretta Scott King Honor for The Blacker the Berry and for her first picture book, Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. Her picture book I Have Heard of a Land received a Coretta Scott King Honor and an IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice Award and was an ALA Notable Book. Her other titles include The Gospel Cinderella, Crowning Glory, Gingerbread Days, and A Gathering of Flowers. Ms. Thomas lives in Berkeley, California.

The illustrator of more thansixty children s books, Floyd Cooper isa past recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for Illustration and a four-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. Visit his website at www.floydcooper.com.

Review:

"A must." (Pointer rview)"--The Kirkus Reviews""National Book Award winner Thomas celebrates the beauty and heritage of African Americans in a lyrical collection of poems....Cooper's handsome paintings...help emphasize the warmth and love that imbue the book.""-- Publishers Weekly"

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