In the Time of the Drums - Softcover

Siegelson, Kim L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620143097 ISBN 13: 9781620143094

Verlag: LEE & LOW BOOKS INC, 2016

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"Although In the Time of the Drums' is full of slavery s unhappy history, it is a fine example of a genre paradoxically remarkable for the comfort and sustenance it delivers. Brian Pinkney s gentle and luminous scratchboard illustrations provide subtly intelligent counterpoint to the text. On one page, for example, Mentu, who is big enough to carry two buckets of water, complains about the burden; Twi insists that he do so as practice for what is coming when he is an adult. Yet Pinkney s illustration shows Twi carrying two buckets of water while Mentu carries only one. It is a perfect representation of one of the complex necessities of African-American life: the verbal chiding as public warning; the practice, unspoken, made kinder. It is that breath of kindness that lingers in the wake of this book Grandmother Twi s love for her grandson, Mentu, a love he in turn passes on to his children and they to theirs. Above all, and despite all, a currency of hope." --The New York Times Book Review "The New York Times Book Review "

"Although In the Time of the Drums' is full of slavery's unhappy history, it is a fine example of a genre paradoxically remarkable for the comfort and sustenance it delivers. Brian Pinkney's gentle and luminous scratchboard illustrations provide subtly intelligent counterpoint to the text. On one page, for example, Mentu, who is big enough to carry two buckets of water, complains about the burden; Twi insists that he do so as practice for what is coming when he is an adult. Yet Pinkney's illustration shows Twi carrying two buckets of water while Mentu carries only one. It is a perfect representation of one of the complex necessities of African-American life: the verbal chiding as public warning; the practice, unspoken, made kinder. It is that breath of kindness that lingers in the wake of this book--Grandmother Twi's love for her grandson, Mentu, a love he in turn passes on to his children and they to theirs. Above all, and despite all, a currency of hope."

--The New York Times Book Review "The New York Times Book Review "

-Although In the Time of the Drums' is full of slavery's unhappy history, it is a fine example of a genre paradoxically remarkable for the comfort and sustenance it delivers. Brian Pinkney's gentle and luminous scratchboard illustrations provide subtly intelligent counterpoint to the text. On one page, for example, Mentu, who is big enough to carry two buckets of water, complains about the burden; Twi insists that he do so as practice for what is coming when he is an adult. Yet Pinkney's illustration shows Twi carrying two buckets of water while Mentu carries only one. It is a perfect representation of one of the complex necessities of African-American life: the verbal chiding as public warning; the practice, unspoken, made kinder. It is that breath of kindness that lingers in the wake of this book--Grandmother Twi's love for her grandson, Mentu, a love he in turn passes on to his children and they to theirs. Above all, and despite all, a currency of hope.-

--The New York Times Book Review -The New York Times Book Review -

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Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.

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• Verlag: LEE & LOW BOOKS INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1620143097
• ISBN 13: 9781620143094
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Zeichner: Pinkney Brian