Hand in Hand by Andrea Pinkney

Hand in Hand by Andrea Pinkney

In this New York Times Notable Children's Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country.

Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject, punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading.

Profiled:

• Benjamin Banneker
• Frederick Douglass
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• A. Philip Randolph
• Thurgood Marshall
• Jackie Robinson
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr
• Barack H. Obama II

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the author of more than 20 children's books, including Bird in a Box and several collaborations with her husband Brian Pinkney, including Sit -In, Hand in Hand, and Martin & Mahalia. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Sean Qualls is the illustrator of several well-known children's books, including Carole Boston Weatherford's Before John Was a Jazz Giant, for which he got a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and Jonah Winter's Dizzy, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Kirkus Best Book, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. He's also worked on Toni Morrison and her son Slade's Little Cloud and Lady Wind, as well as Spike and Tonya Lee's Giant Steps to Change the World, which will be released in January 2011. Sean resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, illustrator Selina Alko, and their two children.