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Gary Golio
"Life is how you look at it." And for Black photographer Roy DeCarava, life in his neighbourhood was beautiful. Follow Roy through 1940s Harlem, as he takes out his camera…
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"When Walt Whitman saw his brother's name on a list of wounded Union soldiers, he went to see him in the war hospital, and did not stop visiting and ministering…
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Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to…
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This picture book for older readers tells the story of how the racism protest song Strange Fruit came into being in 1939 at the hands of two outsiders: Billie Holiday…
Jazz icon Sonny Rollins found an inspired spot to practice his saxophone when his neighbors complained –
An award-winning author and a Caldecott Medalist take a creative look at the early life of comedic genius Charlie Chaplin, from his childhood through his beginnings in silent film and…
A rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
This picture book biography follows a young Bob Zimmerman as he renames himself after his favorite poet, Dylan Thomas, and leaves his mining town to pursue his love of music…
The story of Blind Willie Johnson–the legendary Texas musician whose song Dark Was the Night was included on the Voyager I space probe’s Golden Record –
