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My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey
By Jeanne Walker Harvey
- ISBN
- 978-1-4640-0209-0 978-1-4640-0206-9 978-0-7614-5810-4
- Publisher
- Recorded Books
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Starred Review on August 1, 2012 | Video/DVD
K-Gr 3—In a first-person narrative that incorporates some of artist Romare Bearden's phrases and ideas, and using his famous painting "Watching the Good Trains Go By" as her inspiration, Jeanne Walker Harvey gives voice to the history and experiences that inspired his famous collages. Born in North Carolina, Bearden and his family moved to Harlem in 1914 to escape discriminatory Jim Crow Laws and attitudes. In his collages, which he called paintings and "visual jazz," he analyze...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Present-tense rhymes ostensibly voiced by African American artist Bearden describe his childhood move from North Carolina to Harlem, wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
