We are shining / written by Gwendolyn Brooks ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins Children's Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0062570668
- 9780062570666
- Poems. Selections
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.52 B873 | Available | 33111008571859 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.52 B873 | Available | 33111008781888 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of the diversity of our world. This life-affirming poem is now illustrated for the very first time, with stunning, vibrant images.
A story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it. Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving poem about acceptance, stressing that every child should have the opportunity for a shining future and offering hope for a better tomorrow.
"Text originally published as " A Little Girl's Poem" in Very Young Poets, Brooks Press, Chicago, IL. Copyright © 1983 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely."--Title page verso.
Ages 4-8.
A life-affirming poem, illustrated for the first time, intends to foster opportunity and acceptance for all the people and children of the world.