Thurgood - Hardcover
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A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Youth Editor's Choice Selection
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature's Best Book
Thurgood - Hardcover
$19.99
by Jonah Winter (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Thurgood Marshall--the first black justice on the Supreme Court and a giant of the civil rights movement--jumps to life in this inspiring picture-book biography from an award-winning author and six-time Coretta Scott King, four-time Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator.
Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer--the loudest talker, funniest joke teller, and best arguer from the time he was a kid growing up in Baltimore in the early 1900s. He would go on to become the star of his high school and college debate teams, a stellar law student at Howard University, and, as a lawyer, a one-man weapon against the discriminatory laws against black Americans. After only two years at the NAACP, he was their top lawyer and had earned himself the nickname Mr. Civil Rights. He argued--and won--cases before the Supreme Court, including one of the most important cases in American history: Brown v Board of Education. And he became the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice in history. Like its subject, here is a biography that crackles with energy and intensity--a great introduction to a great man. A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Bank Street Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Youth Editor's Choice Selection
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature's Best Book
Author Biography
Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. Among them are Here Comes the Garbage Barge!; Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality; My Name is James Madison Hemings; Barack; The Founding Fathers!; and Lillian's Right to Vote, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist. Visit him at jonahwinter.com.
Bryan Collier has won four Caldecott Honors, for Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews, and Dave the Potter by Laban Carack Hill. His first book, Uptown, won the Coretta Scott King Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Award, . He has won five more Coretta Scott King Awards for Rosa; Knock, Knock by Daniel Beaty; Dave the Potter; Trombone Shorty; and I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, and three Coretta Scott King Honors. Visit him at bryancollier.com.
Number of Pages: 40
Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.1 x 10.1 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 03, 2019
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Thurgood
Interest Level: Lower Grades, K-3
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 0.5
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