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Africa Dream
Author
Illustrator
Carole Byard
Publication Date
December 20, 1991
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction / 2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Only 1 copies currently available
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Description
In words that sing and pictures that evoke the rich life and culture of the African continent, here is a book that makes real the deepest longings and imaginings of children for the faraway land of their ancestors.
Publication date
December 20, 1991
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780064432771
Lexile Measure
580
Publisher
HarperCollins
BISAC categories
JUV030000 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | General
Library of Congress categories
Africa
Publishers Weekly
Impassioned pencil drawings highlight an African American girl's nocturnal visions. PW said, "Greenfield's lyrical telling and Byard's marvelous pictures make this book close to an ideal adventure for children, black or white." Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
Eloise Greenfield
Eloise Greenfield is a celebrated poet and the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and biography for children, including the Coretta Scott King Award winner Africa Dream, The Coretta Scott King Award Honor books Mary McLeod Bethune and Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir, co-written with her mother. Greenfield is the recipient of the Hope S. Dean Award from the Foundation for Children's Literature, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. She has received the Hurston/Wright Foundation's North Star Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Moonstone Celebration of Black Writing, and has an Honorary Doctor of Education Degree from Wheelock College in Boston. Greenfield has also been inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. She lives in Washington, D.C.
George Ford is an award-winning artist who has illustrated dozens of children's books, including several by noted authors such as Nikki Grimes, Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Giovanni, and Robert Coles. In 1974, he was the recipient of the first Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Ray Charles. A lifelong jazz enthusiast, Ford lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife.