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OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR

FROM CARVER TO OWENS, FITZGERALD TO PARKS, KING TO OBAMA

Thirteen African American Artists Commemorate History's Pioneers

written by Michelle Cook; illustrated by various artists

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For print, radio & television contact:
Deb Shapiro 646-438-6070
deb.shapiro@bloomsburyusa.com

 
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Outstanding Literary Work – Children

  • "Child of the Civil Rights Movement" – Paula Young Shelton (Random House Children's Books)
  • "Negro Speaks of Rivers" – Langston Hughes (Author), E.B. Lewis (Illustrator) (Disney-Jump at the Sun/Disney Book Group)
  • "Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change" – Michelle Cook (Author), A.G. Ford, Bryan Collier, Charlotte Riley- Webb, Cozbi Cabrera , Diane Dillon, E.B. Lewis, Eric Velasquez , Frank Morrison, James Ransome, Leo Dillon, Pat Cummings , R. Gregory Christie, Shadra Strickland (Illustrators), Marian Wright Edelman (Introduction) (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
  • "Peeny Butter Fudge" – Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
  • "Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble" – Whoopi Goldberg with Deborah Underwood (authors), Maryn Roos (Illustrator) (Disney-Jump at the Sun/Disney Book Group)

see full list of winners

 

 

... AND THE WINNER IS ...

our children can soar

OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR

A CELEBRATION OF ROSA, BARACK, AND THE PIONEERS OF CHANGE

written by Michelle Cook; illustrated by various artists

ISBN: 978-1-59990-418-4/$16.99/April 2009

For print, radio & television contact: 
Deb Shapiro 646-438-6070
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