We Are Shining - Hardcover

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062570668 ISBN 13: 9780062570666

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Life is for us, and is shining. We have a right to sing.

Pulitzer Prize—winning poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks speaks to all children of the world in this moving and life-affirming poem about acceptance and opportunity. In this story of our shared humanity, Gwendolyn Brooks honors the beauty of our world and the many different people in it.

Accompanied by vibrant and stunning artwork from Coretta Scott King Award—winning illustrator Jan Spivey Gilchrist, this picture book is a powerful celebration of diversity and hope for a shining future, just in time to commemorate the esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks’s one hundredth birthday.

About the Author:

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917—2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha. You can find out more about her at www.gwendolynbrooks.net.

Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator-author of seventy-four children's books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, a Junior Library Guild Best Book, an NAACP Image Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book, and a Georgia State Children's Book Award nominee. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0062570668
• ISBN 13: 9780062570666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gilchrist Jan Spivey