Josephine
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A01=Patricia Hruby Powell
A12=Christian Robinson
activist
African American
Age Group_Ages 5-7
Age Group_Ages 5-7
Author_Christian Robinson
Author_Patricia Hruby Powell
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Bologna Rigazzi
Category1=Kids
Category=YND
Category=YNM
COP=United States
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Horn book
Language_English
legend
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Sibert
singer
softlaunch
spy
verse
woman
Product details
- ISBN 9781452103143
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 207 x 262mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 5-7
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An emotionally powerful biography told in verse of a dancer, singer, comedienne, and enduring figure - Josephine Baker - from her birth in the slums, her fantastic success, and her fight against racial prejudice.
Patricia Hruby Powell danced throughout the Americas and Europe with her dance company, One Plus One, before becoming a writer of children's books. She has marveled at the spirit, courage, and beauty of Josephine Baker for a long time, and while visiting schools as a storyteller/ author and working as a librarian, she realised what a great role model Josephine could be to young people. Christian Robinson remembers the first time he saw Paul Colin's illustration of Josephine dancing in a banana skirt. He was inspired then, at the age of 13. Years later he is still inspired by Josephine and never imagined being given the opportunity to share her story through illustrations of his own.
