When I Hear Spirituals
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- Erwartet am 7. Jan. 2025
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Your spirit will soar! A girl connects with heritage, history, and a higher power through the lyrics of twelve beloved spirituals and four seminal events in African American history.
A beautiful keepsake to be shared by multiple generations.
When I hear spirituals
Sometimes
A big, full feeling
Grows in my chest . . .
Her heart pounds, she gets a lump in her throat, and tears flow down her cheeks. She wants to clap her hands and stomp her feet. There is healing, tenderness, strength, pride, and above all, hope.
The author of the classic picture book Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, Cheryl Willis Hudson, has woven together lyrics of twelve timeless, Black spirituals with a moving exploration of how music holds memories, emotions, and empowerment.
Songs include “Go down, Moses,” “Nobody Knows the Troubles I See,” “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” “Rock-a-My Soul,” “Get on Board, Little Children,” and more.
Evocative illustrations by award-winning artist London Ladd depict important people and places in Black history and culture: Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Great Migration, and the Enslaved People’s Uprising of 1811.
Journey through Black history and music in this layered picture book.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Willis Hudson movingly exalts the power of African American spirituals in a lyrics showcase that pairs existing verses with feelings they can evoke. On the first page, a Black child watching doves circle narrates on the verso: "When I hear spirituals,/ Sometimes,/ A big, full feeling/ Grows in my chest." The recto, meanwhile, supplies italicized lyrics: "Over my head, I hear music in the air." A page later, a Black adult in a pew bows their head, "A big lump/... stuck/ In my throat," while lyrics read, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Other spreads foreground a church congregation raising their hands in worship, a child dancing in a white dress, and Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King marching in a crowd, mixing historical scenes with everyday vignettes. Ladd's ethereal acrylic, colored pencil, and cut paper illustrations render each characters' heartfelt emotions visible, while personal-feeling text underlines how "spirituals speak/ To something tender/ And gentle/ And reverent/ And ‘sho'nuff'/ And ‘can-do'/ Inside of me." Back matter includes an author's note and glossary. Ages 6–9.
