Indigo Blume and the Garden City (Book & CD) - Softcover

Kwame Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888018984 ISBN 13: 9781888018981

Publisher: Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest, 2012

Synopsis

Indigo Blume and the Garden City received a 2013 NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Children's Literature. Indigo Blume is a nine-year old girl who lives in the fictional city of Garden City. She decides to enter a "Go Green" contest, even though her friends won't help her with her big idea: A Rooftop Garden. In the end, she is successful at cleaning up her community and building a garden with climbing beans so tall they almost touch the stars. A "Green" glossary is included, as well as a Read Aloud CD with a special song written and performed by SPEECH of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

About this title

About the Author:

Kwame Alexander is a poet, publisher, and an award-winning producer of literary programs, Dubbed a "phenom" in the poetry world by The Charleston (SC) City Paper, Alexander has written for television, the stage, and authored 14 books including And Then You Know: New & Selected Poems; and a young adult title, Crush: Love Poems; He speaks, and conducts writing/publishing workshops at schools and conferences throughout the country. Alexander resides in the Washington, DC area, where he currently serves as Founding Director of Book-in-a-Day, a literacy program that teaches and inspires youth in the writing and publishing process. Recently, Kwame served on the advisory board for Nikki Giovanni s The 100 Best African American Poems (Sourcebooks, 2010). His children s book, Acoustic Rooster and his Barnyard Band, illustrated by New York Times Bestselling Illustrator Tim Bowers, was a 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Children's Literature; and his debut YA Novel will be published by Harper Collins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1888018984
• ISBN 13: 9781888018981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 28
• Illustrator: JahSun