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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title(s)) Paperback - 2012

by Pinkney, Andrea

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"Hand in Hand" presents the stories of 10 men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Men profiled include Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack H. Obama II. Illustrations.

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  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 01/01/2013, Page 257
  • Horn Book Magazine, 01/01/2013, Page 107
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2013, Page 177
  • Kirkus Best Children's Books, 11/15/2012, Page 73
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2012, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 11/11/2012, Page 22
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2012, Page 33
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/01/2012, Page 98
  • School Library Journal, 11/01/2012, Page 124
  • Shelf Awareness, 11/02/2012, Page 0
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 02/01/2013, Page 0

About the author

Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a New York Times best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which was illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

Brian Pinkney (www.brianpinkney.net) has frequently collaborated with his wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Some of their other books include, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, for which Brian was awarded a Caldecott Honor. Brian was also a Caldecott Honoree for The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci, and he won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L.Siegelson.