Sugar Hill
Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
CCBC Choices 2015
Best History/Non-fiction Picture Book of 2014, The Huffington Post
2015 Jefferson Cup Overfloweth
2016 Arnold Adoff Early Readers Poetry Award, Honor Book
Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary.
With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community. Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded their horizons beyond the narrow limits of segregation. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
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"Missile silos implode in North Dakota/ copping the absence/ as I shrunk back in horror at the use I was making of my intelligence..." writes Drew Gardner in "Black Atlantic Sky," one of 12 perfectly calibrated, mostly monostichic poems in Sugar Pill. The editor of Snare magazine and a percussionist who has collaborated frequently with other poets, Gardner is concerned with keeping time of all sorts here: "Homeostasis" finds "body systems regulated within normal bounds/ tethered seven shrimp to a platform"; "The Manufacturers" know that "each muscle fiber can support 1000x its own weight/ set up to maintain systems of feeling/ whether we are included with our descendants" or not; the title panacea charts "footprints of darkening work/ we cannot fall out of." Readers will not want to fall out of this one.
