Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
By Don Tate
Edition
By Don Tate
Hardcover edition
Publisher Peachtree Publishers Imprint Peachtree ISBN9781561458257
Awards and Honors <b> 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner</b><br> Capitol Choices 2016<br> <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Children’s Books of 2015, Picture Books<br> NCSS Carter G. Woodson Book Award 2016 Winner, Elementary ALA Notable Books for Children 2016, Middle Readers<br> Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2015, Informational Books for Younger Readers<br> 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 3–5<br> 2016 CCBC Choices–Biography and Autobiography<br> 2015 Cybils Awards Nomination, Elementary / Middle Grade Nonfiction<br> Best Multicultural Books of 2015<br> 2016 Christopher Award, Ages 6 & up<br> 2016 Crystal Kite Award Winner, Texas/Oklahoma<br> Triple Crown National Book Award 2016-2017<br> Children’s Literature Assembly, 2016 Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts<br> Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, Biography and Memoir<br> William Allen White Children’s Book Awards 2017–2018 Master List, Grades 3–5Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
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2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner
As a boy, George Moses Horton taught himself to read, and “words loosened the chains of bondage.” During six decades of enslavement, he became a poet and the first African American published in the South. Bibliography. Author’s note. Full-color mixed-media illustrations were done in gouache, archival ink, pencil, and digitally.
As a boy, George Moses Horton taught himself to read, and “words loosened the chains of bondage.” During six decades of enslavement, he became a poet and the first African American published in the South. Bibliography. Author’s note. Full-color mixed-media illustrations were done in gouache, archival ink, pencil, and digitally.
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