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Tar Beach
By Ringgold, Faith
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-51758-030-1
- Publisher
- New York : Crown Publishers, c1991.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1991
Gr 1-Up Tar Beach is a work of modern art translated into a children's picture book, and the adaptation is so natural that it seems inevitable. From her 1988 story quilt, reproduced on the cover and within the last pages of the book, Ringgold has taken both the setting and the text. The painted scene in the center of the quilt shows a Harlem rooftop on a starry night with four adults playing cards and with Cassie Louise Lightfoot and her brother, Be Be, lying on a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Starred Review on April 1, 2016
Reissue, 1991. The book, originally created as a story quilt, recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie, who flies above her apartment-bui...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
