Alvin Ailey
by Andrea Pinkney (Author) Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Reading Rainbow Books
"This markedly talented husband-and-wife team offers a warm profile of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey . . . intertwining Ailey's alleged thoughts and conversations with facts about his childhood, his introduction to the world of dance . . . and his founding of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review.
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Andrea Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of nearly 50 books for young readers, among them The Red Pencil and A Poem for Peter, as well as several collaborations with her husband Brian Pinkney, including Sit -In and Hand in Hand, which received the Coretta Scott King Book Award. Brian Pinkney has illustrated numerous books for children, including two Caldecott Honor books, and he has written and illustrated several of his own books. Brian has received the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration and three Coretta Scott King Book Award Honor medals. The Pinkneys have been named among the "25 Most Influential People in Our Children's Lives" by Children's Health magazine. They live in Brooklyn, New York.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786810772
Lexile Measure
880
Guided Reading Level
15
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Publication date
September 19, 1995
Series
Reading Rainbow Books
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
United States
Biography
Choreographers
Dancers
Ailey, Alvin
Choreography
United States
Biography
Choreographers
Dancers
Ailey, Alvin
Choreography
