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Item Nr: B 105280 Title: Ellington Was Not a Street
Grade Lvl: PIJ Author: Shange, Ntozake
Length: 34 Prod/Pub: Simon & Schuster
Copyright: 2004 Series:
Book Type: FNP Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillepsie, Paul Robeson, and other great African American men who were instrumental in changing American culture and society. 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Illustrated by Nelson Kadir. Picture book for older readers. RC 3.3. IL 3-8.

  Subjects:
  26 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  65 - AMERICAN POETRY
  790 - AMERICAN POETRY--AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
  1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
  290 - CHILDREN'S POETRY
  144 - PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS
  871 - POETRY