Three familiar African-American spirituals are exuberantly presented with brightly colored cut paper collage illustrations. Music for the spirituals follows the text.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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1 comment:
Second. The bright, beautiful illustrations in this book compliment the three well-known spirituals. Great for music classes and for history tie-ins. For example, a line from This Little Light of Mine is mentioned in the book, Birmingham, 1963. Great opportunity to pull out Bryan's book and share the entire spiritual with students.
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