Let It Shine by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Let It Shine by Andrea Davis Pinkney

2001 Coretta Scott King Honor Book



Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

The lives these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in--even when it feels like no one is listening. Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women who lit the path to freedom for generations. Includes biographies of Sojournor Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B.Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm.

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.