Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library Contributor(s): Weatherford, Carole Boston (Author), Velasquez, Eric (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1536208973 ISBN-13: 9781536208979 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Nonfiction | Books & Libraries - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional |
Dewey: B |
Lexile Measure: 1100 |
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 9.5" W x 11.6" (0.60 lbs) 48 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 193117 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. |