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Primitive
The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
von Janice N. Harrington
Paperback, 104 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-942683-20-9, ISBN: 1-942683-20-0

"A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippinthe best-known African American artist of his timePrimitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American folk art as supposedly primitive,” and it also critiques the underestimation of African American life and imagination in the broader American consciousness. Award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington connects readers to this fascinati ..."

Roberto Walks Home(1st Edition)
von Janice N. Harrington, Ezra Jack Keats, Jody Wheeler
Hardcover, 40 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Viking Juvenile
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-06316-1, ISBN: 0-670-06316-9

"Roberto is thrilled that his older brother Miguel is going to walk him home from school. But when Miguel forgets and shoots hoops with his friends instead, Roberto is mad and has to walk alone. How will Miguel make it up to Roberto? Inspired by the works of Ezra Jack Keats and featuring Roberto, a classic character from Dreams, Louie, and Pet Show!, this moving story by award-winning author Janice N. Harrington?with gorgeous Keatsian il ..."

The Hands of Strangers
Poems from the Nursing Home (American Poets Continuum)
von Janice N. Harrington
Paperback, 80 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934414-54-5, ISBN: 1-934414-54-9

"As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she "cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard ..."

Going North(1st Edition)
(Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
von Janice N. Harrington, Jerome Lagarrigue, Yangsook Choi
Hardcover, 40 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-32681-4, ISBN: 0-374-32681-9

"An African American family becomes a new kind of pioneerLeaving behind Big Mama, loving relatives, and the familiar red soil and cotton fields of Alabama, Jessie and her family are going north to Nebraska. They are pioneers searching for a better life, one with decent schools and jobs. But traveling through the segregated South is difficult for an African American family in the 1960s. With most public places reserved for "whites only," ..."

Buzzing with Questions
The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
von Janice N. Harrington, Theodore Taylor Iii
Hardcover, 48 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Calkins Creek
ISBN-13: 978-1-62979-558-4, ISBN: 1-62979-558-5

Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone(1st Edition)
(New Poets of America)
von Janice N. Harrington, Elizabeth Spires
Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-929918-89-8, ISBN: 1-929918-89-5

"“Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington’s manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the rural South more than sixty years ago. Set on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, the poems chronicle a way of life that has long since vanish ..."

Furious Flower(Reprint)
Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
von Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin, Lauren K. Alleyne, Rita Dove, John Bracey, Iain Haley Pollock, Gregory Pardlo, Aaron Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Fred Joiner, Frank X. Walker, F. Douglas Brown, E. Ethelbert Miller, Erica Hunt, Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Manuel, Douglas Kearney, Dante Micheaux, Jericho Brown, Jacqueline Jones Lamon, Curtis L. Crisler, Hayes Davis, Clemonce Heard, Cynthia Manick, Raina J. León, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Cornelius Eady, Cm Burroughs, John Murillo, Tara Betts, T'ai Freedom Ford, Shayla Lawson, Sherese Francis, Shauna M. Morgan, Samantha Thornhill, Safiya Sinclair, Safia Elhillo, Remica Bingham-Risher, Randall Horton, Donika Kelly, Dominique Christina, Dexter L. Booth, Destiny O. Birdsong, Derrick Weston Brown, David Mills, Darlene Anita Scott, Metta Sáma, Sharan Strange, Candice Wiley, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ana-Maurine Lara, Amber Flora Thomas, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Amanda Johnston, Ama Codjoe, Alan W. King, Abdul Ali, Kwame Dawes, Yalie Kamara, Xandria Phillips, Tyehimba Jess, Tracy K. Smith, Tony Medina, Toi Derricotte, Tiana Clark, Thylias Moss, Taylor Johnson, Cedric Tillman, Bettina Judd, Avery R. Young, Chanda Feldman, Joshua B. Bennett, Jp Howard, Julian Randall, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Keith S. Wilson, Kevin Simmonds, Khadijah Queen, Korey Williams, Krista Franklin, L. Lamar Wilson, Lauren Russell, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Lynne Procope, Major Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Matthew Shenoda, Mahtem Shiferraw, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Meta Duewa Jones, Michael Collins, Nabila Lovelace, Natasha Marin, Natasha Oladokun, Nate Marshall, Nagueyalti Warren, Nicole Sealey, Nkosi Nkululeko, Opal Moore, Evie Shockley, Ladan Osman, Janice N. Harrington, Camille T. Dungy, Nandie Comer, Damaris B. Hill, Justin Philip Reed, Rickey Laurentiis, Jasmine Richards, Terrance Hayes, Francine J. Harris, Patricia Spears Jones, Patricia Smith, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Ross Gay, Arisa White, Saretta Morgan, Indigo Moor, Marcus Wicker, Danez Smith, Aricka Foreman, Mary Alice Daniel, Clint Smith, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Charif Shanahan, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Anastacia Renée, Phillip B. Williams, Justin Phillip Reed, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Valencia Robin, Philip B. Williams, Teri Cross Davis, Demaris B. Hill, Philiip B. Williams, Furious Flower
Paperback, 380 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Triquarterly
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4154-4, ISBN: 0-8101-4154-X

"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."

Multiculturalism in Library Programming for Children
(Alsc Program Support Publications)
von Janice N. Harrington, Evelyn Walker
Paperback, 15 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1994 von Amer Library Assn
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-5765-3, ISBN: 0-8389-5765-X

Hurry, Kate, or You'll Be Late!
von Janice N. Harrington, Tiffany Rose
Hardcover, 35 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von Margaret Ferguson Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-4510-3, ISBN: 0-8234-4510-0

"No, Kate was late because just after they arrived at school, her daddy swooped in to give her a great big goodbye hug that lasted a very long time. Janice N. Harrington is the Ezra Jack Keats Award winning author of Going North."

Catching a Storyfish
(Paperback)
von Janice N. Harrington
Paperback, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von Astra Publishing House
ISBN-13: 978-1-66266-007-8, ISBN: 1-66266-007-3

"This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one’s individual voice."

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County(1st Edition)
von Janice N. Harrington, Shelley Jackson
Hardcover, 40 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Farrar, Straus And Giroux (Byr)
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-31251-0, ISBN: 0-374-31251-6

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
von Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

Rooting for Plants
The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector [Hardcover] Harrington, Janice N. and Taylor III, Theodore
von Janice N. Harrington
Hardcover, 50 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von Calkins Creek
ISBN-13: 978-1-66268-019-9, ISBN: 1-66268-019-8

Busy-Busy Little Chick
von Janice N. Harrington, Brian Pinkney
Hardcover, 32 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Farrar, Straus And Giroux (Byr)
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-34746-8, ISBN: 0-374-34746-8

"Ideal for Easter and springtime, an exuberantly illustrated picture book by a "New York Times" bestselling artist!Little Chick's mother is all cluck and no action. Mama knows her old nest isn't the cozy home she and her brood need. But whenever she vows to start building a new house, she's distracted by sweety-meaty worms, crunchy-munchy crickets, or picky-pecky corn. Luckily, her Little Chick is an industrious sort. While the rest of h ..."

Buzzing with Questions
The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
von Janice N. Harrington
48 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Thinkingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-63592-360-5, ISBN: 1-63592-360-3

"A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book The curiosity of the first African American entomologist Charles Henry Turner--a scientist who studied bugs--shines in this nonfiction picture book, which showcases his ideas and discoveries about ants, bees, and ..."

Catching a Storyfish
von Janice N. Harrington
Hardcover, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Wordsong
ISBN-13: 978-1-62979-429-7, ISBN: 1-62979-429-5

Au boulot, P'tit Coco !
von Harrington Janice N., Brian Pinkney, Muriel Bloch
Album, 32 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Le Genévrier
ISBN-13: 978-2-36290-066-2, ISBN: 2-36290-066-5

Catching a Storyfish
von Janice Harrington
240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Highlights Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62979-743-4, ISBN: 1-62979-743-X

"This lyrical and deeply emotional novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one’s individual voice."

Going North
von Janice Harrington
Veröffentlicht 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-4193-5470-0, ISBN: 1-4193-5470-1

Going North(Unabridged)
(Audio Cassette)
von Janice N. Harrington
Audio, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Recorded Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4193-5468-7, ISBN: 1-4193-5468-X

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