Monday, February 4, 2013

A few of the books we are studying in art class

-Duke Ellington- by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

-When Marian Sang- by Pam Munoz Ryan
Pictures by Brian Selznick

-Ella Fitzgerald The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa- by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

-Dizzy- by Jonah Winter
Illustrated by Sean Qualls

2 Harlem Renaissance Books

-Rosa- by Nikki Giovanni
Illustrated by Bryan Collier

-Fly High, The Story of Bessie Coleman- by Louise Borden and Mary Kay Kroeger
Illustrated by Teresa Flavin

A book I love because it highlights so many African Americans that we rarely hear of and the important role they had as inventors....by Kareem Abdul Jabbar -What Color is My World? The lost History of African American Inventors

-Twelve Rounds of Glory- a book about Muhammed Ali

-George Washington Carver, The Peanut Wizard-


More photos to come of projects we do integrated with these books










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