Bryan Collier, illus.

Michael Boulware Moore | NONFICTION,  Sep 20, 2024

A genuine account of an enslaved person daringly achieving a better life. Highly recommended for elementary school libraries.

Tami Charles | FICTION,  Mar 24, 2023

This awe-inspiring and phenomenal work of art belongs on all shelves.

Sandra Neil Wallace | NONFICTION,  Jan 27, 2023

Ending injustice through love and nonviolence, a quaint notion in these turbulent times, is a necessary message; purchase for public, school, and classroom libraries alike.

Renée Watson | NONFICTION,  Oct 01, 2022

Poetic and superbly illustrated, this tour de force belongs in every library.

Bryan Collier | FICTION,  Jun 01, 2022

When presented with difficult choices, music provides the focus and motivation for a boy to live up to a father’s advice and remember his mother’s love in this necessary paean to familial love.

illus. Bryan Collier | FICTION,  Sep 01, 2021

Powerful scenes, outstanding for all that they capture and urgently convey, will challenge all readers to find their place in the march to a more racially just future.

Tami Charles | FICTION,  Aug 14, 2020

Like Kristina Evans’s What’s Special About Me, Mama?, this also depicts a mother speaking to a child of color about his worth; a very timely story and a wonderful addition to school and public libraries.–Annmarie Braithwaite, New York P.L., New York City

Jonah Winter | NONFICTION,  Sep 01, 2019

This is no carefully neutral biography: it is a fervent celebration of a man whose work improved the lives of millions of Americans. This stirring portrait of an American hero is recommended for first purchase.