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Last Week, Featuring Frank Morrison and Brian Pinkney

h1 December 21st, 2018 by jules


“Dropping, scratching, beat juggling/matching wax on wheels of steel.
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
(Click to enlarge spread and see text)


 


— From Susan McElroy Montanari’s Hip-Hop Lollipop,
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.

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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!



 

From Hip-Hop Lollipop:


 


“Hands tutting. / Knees jutting. / Arms cranking.
Body swanking. / Hip gyration. / Exultation!”
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“At Big Sister’s doorway, / Lollie stops to say ‘Hey!’
Tasha’s jam is techno — / She glides heel-to-toe in slo-mo.”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


“Mama scoops her up high / Up into the sky. / Sky.
Then swings Lollie down low. / ‘In your room you go. / Go!'”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 


“Jumping / Snapping / Nonstop.
Lollie’s DREAMING hip-hop!'”
(Click to enlarge spread)


 



 

From The Roots of Rap:


 


“A boom box-toting homey blasts a hot track on a corner.”


 


“Passersby four-deep surround a street performer.”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 


“Female MCs break it down: Salt-N-Pepa and TLC.”


 


“Queen Latifah sports a crown, reigning like royalty.”
(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)


 


“A generation voicing stories, hopes, and fears
founds a hip-hop nation. Say holler if you hear.”
(Click to enlarge spread and see text)


 



 

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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.





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