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Danitra Brown Leaves Town |
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Nikki Grimes |
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From Publishers Weekly
Zuri describes in verse the summer that she and her best friend Danitra are separated in Danitra Brown Leaves Town by Nikki Grimes, a follow-up to Meet Danitra Brown. Floyd Cooper's luminescent pastels chronicle the long days and Zuri's many moods. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-Grimes and Cooper return with another story told through poems about Danitra Brown and Zuri Jackson. This time, the friends exchange letters all summer long while Danitra is visiting relatives. Zuri starts out feeling angry and disappointed that Danitra is leaving her behind and doesn't seem to care, but eventually both girls make new friends while they look forward to being... |
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Meet Danitra Brown |
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Nikki Grimes |
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In a series of poems, an African American girl sings the praises of her best friend and their special relationship. According to Zuri, the speaker here, Danitra is "the most splendiferous girl in town." Zuri respects Danitra's quirks (she wears only purple clothing) and admires her ability to walk away from boys who taunt her about her glasses. Zuri is, moreover, grateful that "Danitra knows just what to say to make me glad." Grimes's poetry has a very deliberate rhyme scheme, but it also smoothly describes a number of vignettes and links them with consistent themes and characterizations. Issues of race, feminism and family structure are delicately incorporated, and successfully build an emotional connection for the reader. Cooper's misty oil paints depict two proud, happy kids in an often grim urban landscape.... |
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Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
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Joyce Carol Thomas |
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0060210877 |
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From Publishers Weekly
National Book Award winner Thomas ( Marked By Fire ) celebrates the beauty and heritage of African Americans in a lyrical collection of poems. Couched in language that is learned yet emotional, the verses focus on family life, love, freedom and dreams. Although some sentiments and topics seem too adult for the sensibility of Thomas's child narrators, many poems memorably describe particular individuals--Mama, who carries broomweed "like a healing flower / Over and over the rising road / Branching / Like the divining lines / in her / harvest hands"; or Granny, who warns, "Be careful what you ponder . . . / Over a cup of steaming leaves / for it will surely come to pass." Other poems more explicitly address African American problems, as when the narrator's parents warn that "There are those who / Have brewed a /... |
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Be Good to Eddie Lee |
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Virginia Fleming |
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0698115821 |
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In this touching picture book, a girl discovers a new capacity for friendship when she spends some time with a neighbor boy who has Down's Syndrome. Christy's mother has told her to "be good to Eddie Lee," because he is "lonesome" and "different." Christy, however, would rather go wading with her friend JimBud than be pestered by Eddie Lee. But when Eddie Lee, uninvited, follows the two kids, Christy reluctantly includes her neighbor and is pleasantly surprised at how the afternoon turns out. Fleming's story accurately captures the attitudes and behavior children often adopt when it comes to tolerating peers who are different. Her characters ring true without being stereotypes and her message about acceptance and friendship is poignant, not heavy-handed. Shimmering with summer sunlight, Cooper's oil washes depict... |
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Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology |
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Jack R. Cooper |
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...gives a uniquely lucid and lively view of neuro- transmitters, their role in nervous system function, and their involvement in the mechanisms of psychiatric drug action
Book Info
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Text provides a view of neurotransmitters, their role in the nervous system function, and involvement in the mechanisms of psychiatric drug action. Updated information includes clinical examples, targets for new drugs, molecular genetics, and drug delivery to the brain. Previous edition: c1996. Softcover. DNLM: Neuropharmacology.
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Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan |
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Floyd Cooper |
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Grade 1-5–This lovingly rendered picture book details the events in Jordan's childhood and adolescence that contributed to his basketball stardom. Cooper's signature artwork, done in umber washes of oil, feature soft outlines and harmonious tones of brown, orange, and blue. From a scene of children running wildly through a full house to one of Michael staring longingly at the bigger, older players competing on the blacktop court, the freedom of movement and the joys of athletic prowess and competition are expressed in every depiction of the characters. An author's note details the superstar's accomplishments in professional sports. At times, Cooper's descriptions of the characters' feelings seem convoluted and unnecessarily long, but the text is easy to read, and events are related in a friendly,... |
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I Have Heard of a Land |
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Joyce Carol Thomas |
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0064436179 |
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From Publishers Weekly
Inspired by her own family's history, Thomas's (Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea) stirring picture book explores the little-known experiences of African American pioneers who settled in Oklahoma during the late 1800s. This moving, poetic account of a brave black woman who stakes a claim "where the cottonwood trees are innocent/ Where the coyote's call is a lullaby at night/ And the land runs on forever" offers a new perspective on an era otherwise well-documented in picture books and school texts. In almost palpable imagery, Thomas describes the natural beauty of a bold new frontier as well as the hopeful, strong and passionate people who created new lives there and realized their dreams. In his third collaboration with Thomas, Cooper (Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, Gingerbread Days), an Oklahoma native, completes... |
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Miz Berlin Walks |
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Jane Yolen |
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Grade 1-3?Cooper's ability to define and personalize characters and his soft-focus technique, which gives a nostalgic veneer to his artwork, make him a wise choice for this touching tale. Over the course of the story, the faces of the narrator, a young African-American girl, and Miz Berlin, an elderly white woman, fluctuate with emotion as the two begin and enjoy a friendship in a small Virginia town. Miz Berlin, "talking or singing or in quiet contemplation" walks the town, and although Mary Louise can only accompany her to the end of the block, she finds the woman's stories of catching crawdads on the day the sky rained feathers, living through a hurricane, or being born in a dirt-floor cabin captivating and comes to know the woman in a wonderful way. At the end, when Miz Berlin dies, the girl realizes... |
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Grandpa's Face |
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Eloise Greenfield |
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0399215255 |
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From Publishers Weekly
To Tamika, her grandfather's face tells her everything about him, changing from "glad to worried to funny to sad." But one day, when Tamika watches her grandfather practicing lines for a play, she sees his face change into a face she had never seen beforea mean, cold, angry face that scares her; she is afraid that he will look at her like that. Naughty as can be, Tamika tests the limits of her grandfather's patience, but still that face does not appear. When he finds out why Tamika has misbehaved, her grandfather explains that the face she saw was just a pretend face. With eloquence and a penetrating glimpse of the fears of children, Greenfield has written a moving story about the reliability of love. Cooper, in his first picture book, creates family scenes of extraordinary illumination. He reinforces in the... |
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A Child Is Born |
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Margaret Wise Brown |
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This lyrical celebration of the miracle of Christmas is now just the right size for little hands! Margaret Wise Brown's simple, poetic language brought to life by Floyd Cooper's spectacular paintings offers a fresh perspective on the Holy Family and the miraculous birth of Christ.
Card catalog description
Presents a poetic description of the first Christmas night and the birth of the Baby Jesus.
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The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars |
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Jean Merrill |
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From Publishers Weekly
Delicate, luminous oil paintings illustrate this 12th-century Japanese tale about an unconventional girl. Unlike other gentle flowers of her age, Izumi prefers collecting insects and caterpillars with "some scruffy-looking boys" to dressing fashionably and plucking her eyebrows. Her frustrated parents fear no respected suitor will want such a headstrong wife, but Izumi's reputation captures the fancy of both a nobleman and a captain, either of whom may eventually ask for her hand. Merrill's retelling has a slow, almost laborious pace. And though the story is culled from scholarly sources, its abrupt ending and question-raising afterword fail to satisfy. Cooper's glowing portraits of Izumi, with her "eyebrows like caterpillars," breathe life and imagination into the text. The book's becoming design makes the most... |
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Be Good to Eddie Lee |
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Virginia Fleming |
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0399219935 |
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From Publishers Weekly
In this touching picture book, a girl discovers a new capacity for friendship when she spends some time with a neighbor boy who has Down's Syndrome. Christy's mother has told her to "be good to Eddie Lee," because he is "lonesome" and "different." Christy, however, would rather go wading with her friend JimBud than be pestered by Eddie Lee. But when Eddie Lee, uninvited, follows the two kids, Christy reluctantly includes her neighbor and is pleasantly surprised at how the afternoon turns out. Fleming's story accurately captures the attitudes and behavior children often adopt when it comes to tolerating peers who are different. Her characters ring true without being stereotypes and her message about acceptance and friendship is poignant, not heavy-handed. Shimmering with summer sunlight, Cooper's oil washes depict... |
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Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes |
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Floyd Cooper |
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This insightful picture book illuminates, in both words and art, moments from the childhood of poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Facing difficult times with his parents because of segregation and other forms of racism, Hughes spent many of his early years in the care of his grandmother in Lawrence, Kans. As told by Cooper ( From Miss Ida's Porch ) in the first book he has written as well as illustrated, the wide-open Midwest offers Langston plenty of space to dream, but staying with poor and aging Grandma proves mostly sad and lonely. An eventual move to the home of family friends ushers in a rosy period of love and care that encourages Hughes's burgeoning writing career. Young readers may not understand how Hughes's childhood shaped his adult work, but they are likely to enjoy this story in and of itself. Warmly... |
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Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea |
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Joyce Carol Thomas |
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From Publishers Weekly
National Book Award winner Thomas's "lyrical" poems celebrate the beauty and heritage of African Americans; PW added that the illustrations "emphasize the warmth and love that imbue the book." All ages. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--The Kirkus Reviews
"A must." (Pointer rview)
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Coming Home |
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Floyd Cooper |
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0399226826 |
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From Publishers Weekly
This insightful picture book illuminates, in both words and art, moments from the childhood of poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Facing difficult times with his parents because of segregation and other forms of racism, Hughes spent many of his early years in the care of his grandmother in Lawrence, Kans. As told by Cooper ( From Miss Ida's Porch ) in the first book he has written as well as illustrated, the wide-open Midwest offers Langston plenty of space to dream, but staying with poor and aging Grandma proves mostly sad and lonely. An eventual move to the home of family friends ushers in a rosy period of love and care that encourages Hughes's burgeoning writing career. Young readers may not understand how Hughes's childhood shaped his adult work, but they are likely to enjoy this story in and of itself. Warmly... |
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Freedom School, Yes! |
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Amy Littlesugar |
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0399230068 |
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From Publishers Weekly
The skilled author-illustrator team that introduced readers to 1930s Harlem in Tree of Hope here explores another dramatic chapter in African-American history: the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. In the summer of 1964, Jolie's family plays host to Annie, a 19-year-old white woman who has volunteered to teach Freedom School. The segregated community of Chicken Creek is rattled by this arrangement--blacks are skeptical of learning about their history and their heroes from a white stranger; whites are suspected of violent efforts (burning down the church, throwing bricks through windows) to drive Annie away. Despite the unrest and tension in the air, Annie helps open Jolie's eyes to her heritage and to the great test of courage that the Freedom School poses to all involved. Littlesugar personalizes the events of an... |
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Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman |
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Floyd Cooper |
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Book Review
A storybook biography of Nelson Mandela, written and illustrated by Cooper. The pictures convey Mandela's character as he progresses from childhood--he is the son of an African chief--through the struggle to get a good education in apartheid-ridden South Africa, to his days as an activist for the African National Congress, and then as the most famous prisoner in the world, ending with his election as the first president of the new South Africa. Small children will not understand some of the historical references in the text, so help from teacher or parent will be required to add context for the child. The book offers an ideal story for such interaction.
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From Publishers Weekly
The African leader's boyhood and education are the... |
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Satchmo's Blues |
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Alan Schroeder |
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A storybook biography of Louis Armstrong's childhood, with wonderful illustrations by Floyd Cooper and an evocative and inspiring self-contained story by Alan Schroeder. Growing up in poverty in New Orleans, little Louis is obsessed by the haunting music of his neighborhood and dreams of making such sounds himself. After spying a battered horn in a pawnshop window he has to scavenge for all kinds of menial work to earn the elusively vast sum of $5 to buy it. But he does so, and the story ends with his euphoria as he starts to play real music. A brief author's note describes Satchmo's later international success.
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From Publishers Weekly
The young Louis Armstrong struggles to buy a brass cornet; Cooper's paintings, said PW,... |
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