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A Tribute from the Heart
Collins
May 2011
On Sale: May 3, 2011
40 pages
ISBN: 0060523085
EAN: 9780060523084
Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers
and Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers, the father-son
team who created harlem, celebrate the freedom dream that is
America: our struggles, our ideals, and our hope that we can
live up to them. What is it to be an American?
To live in a strange and beautiful land of complexity,
with a tumultuous history of epic proportions, among the
people who were here first, who came after, who will come
tomorrow. We were the youth that could not
fail
Planting our high ideals in virgin lands and eager
hearts
Making vows forever brighter than the story we
would live . . . The lyrical free verse
evocative of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and
striking mural-like paintings are a testimonial to the heart
and soul of our country: its ordinary and extraordinary
people and the monumental events that have shaped our
nation. With layered, sweeping panoramic paintings and text
rich with historical allusion, this stunning picture book
features passionate writings and vivid portraits of
political Americans, from Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief, to
Abraham Lincoln to Jimi Hendrix.
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