We Are AmericaAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 26 May 2015
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From a father-son team comes a gorgeous picture book that "pays tribute to the variety of America as well as to its promisein Christopher Myers's words, 'the question mark of it.'"(Washington Post)"An inclusive, unblinkered variation of patriotism."(New York Times)
With sweeping panoramic paintings and text rich with historical allusion,this stunning picture book features passionate writings and vivid portraits of politicalAmericans, from Shawnee chief Tecumseh to Abraham Lincoln to Jimi Hendrix. This is a book to share at home or in the classroom, sure to spark questions and engage students, especially in third through fifth grade.
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myerscelebrate the freedom dream that is America: our struggles, our ideals, and our hope that we can live up to them. What is it to be an American? To live in a strange and beautiful land of complexity, with a tumultuous history of epic proportions, among the people who were here first, who came after, who will come tomorrow.
Over the centuries, from a blank canvas of mountains, plains, and canyons, the American landscape has been richly carved by revolution, progress, and possibility. Yet its story is still being written.
With graceful, lyrical prose and evocative paintings, Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers, the father-son team who created Harlem, pay tribute to the spirit and soul that is America.
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