| Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions Contributor(s): Giovanni, Nikki (Author), Giovanni, Nikki (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0805049037 ISBN-13: 9780805049039 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: Poet Nikki Giovanni asked her friends--people such as Gloria Naylor and Gwendolyn Brooks--for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers. The result of their collaborative efforts is this wonderful collection which celebrates those special women who preserve our heritage and prepare our future. An NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women |
| Dewey: 810.803 |
| LCCN: 94006144 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Holiday - Mother's Day - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nikki Giovanni created this book by asking her friends--people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston--for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers, then to a group of writers in their ninties for their thoughts. Grand Mothers celebrates those special women in every culture who preserve heritae and prepare the future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five "Living Legends." Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five "Living Legends." Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. |