What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week, Plus What I Did
Last Week, Featuring Frank Morrison and Brian Pinkney
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Wordplay, rhyming, triple-timing, keepin’ the lyrics real.”
— From Carole Boston Weatherford’s The Roots of Rap:
16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop, illustrated by Frank Morrison
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illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Over at Kirkus today, I highlight the final book from the great Patricia McKissack, who left us in 2017.
That is here.
Last week, I wrote here about Carole Boston Weatherford’s The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop, illustrated by Frank Morrison (Little Bee Books, January 2019), and Susan McElroy Montanari’s Hip-Hop Lollipop, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Schwartz & Wade, October 2018).
I’m following up with art from each book today.
Enjoy!
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Body swanking. / Hip gyration. / Exultation!”
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Tasha’s jam is techno — / She glides heel-to-toe in slo-mo.”
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Then swings Lollie down low. / ‘In your room you go. / Go!'”
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Lollie’s DREAMING hip-hop!'”
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founds a hip-hop nation. Say holler if you hear.”
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HIP-HOP LOLLIPOP. Text copyright © 2018 by Susan McElroy Montanari. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Brian Pinkney and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.
THE ROOTS OF RAP: 16 BARS ON THE 4 PILLARS OF HIP-HOP. Images provided by little bee books/Bonnier Publishing USA. Text copyright 2019 by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrations copyright 2019 by Frank Morrison.