Put this on the shelf next to Chris Raschka's Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop (1992) and see if anyone can sit still when the book is read aloud. Christopher Myers sets his scenes to match the streets, fire escapes, jazz clubs, and kitchens of Harlem, and makes them by turns starkly stylized as an Egyptian mask or sweet as a stained glass window. Backing up Lady Day on the radio." A strong series of images of ink and gouache capture the beauty of faces, from the very old to very young, from golden to blue- black. The imagery springs to life at once: "Ring-a-levio warriors/Stickball heroes" "a full lipped, full hipped/Saint washing collard greens. For its length (282 pages), Monster is an incredibly fast read. Illustrator: Tim O’ BrienPublisher: Scholastic PressCopyright Year: 1996Genre: Fiction/Children’s LiteratureTotal Pages: 266Appropriate Age: 4th/5th/6th Grad. Louis, from Trinidad, "Harlem was a promise." Listing the streets and the churches, naming Langston and Countee, Shango and Jesus, the text is rich with allusion. Monster by Walter Dean Myers I picked this book to read for a literature circle in my 'Teaching Literature to Adolescents' class. To newcomers from Waycross, Georgia, from East St. 1536, etc.) gives poetry a jazz backbeat to tell the story of Harlem, the historic center of African-American culture in New York City. His books include Harlem, Scorpions, Somewhere in the. A hot new artist and his distinguished father fashion a picture book with a stirring sound at its center. Myers has since become one of the countrys most popular African American writers for children and teens.
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