Jeanne Walker Harvey,Elizabeth Zunon
As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmotherâ€™s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the Northâ€”people who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, ,Watching the Good Trains Go By,. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey describes the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the trainâ€™s window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Beardenâ€™s collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. Elizabeth Zunonâ€™s illustrations of painted scenes blended with collage are a stirring tribute to a remarkable artist.,My Hands Sing the Blues, is the recipient of the 2012 IRA Childrens and Young Adults Book Award-Primary Non-Fiction, as well as the gold winner of a Moonbeam Childrenâ€™s Book Award in the category of Picture Book-All Ages.
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My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey