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Gr 5–8—This charming biography invites readers to step inside the vibrant and spirited world of performer and civil rights advocate, Josephine Baker. Robinson's paintings are as colorful and rich as Josephine Baker's story, offering page after page of captivating and animated illustrations and rhythmic text, which is written in blank verse. In a few short and well-organized parts, readers learn the story of one of the world...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

To describe Josephine Baker's life as "dazzling" is not an exaggeration. In this incomparable biography both Powell and Robinson convey the passion, exuberance, dignity, and eccentricity of their subject through words and pictures that nearly jump off the page. There is a surprise at every turn as we learn how Baker, at fifteen, hid inside a costume trunk to stow away with a dance troupe. We see how she managed to stand out in a chorus line by crossing her eyes and acting goofy to win over audiences. We find her walking down the Champs-Elysees ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This incomparable biography conveys dancer Josephine Baker's passion, exuberance, dignity, and eccentricity through words and pictures that nearly ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

An engaging introduction to Josephine Baker, an African American dancer who defied racial discrimination to become a global phenomenon in the 1920s and ’30s. The book celebrates not only Josephine’s incendiary rise to fame but also the barriers she broke along the way, from being the first (and only) black star in the Ziegfeld Follies to later adopting twelve multicultural children she called her Rainbow Tribe. Josephine’s early difficulties make her relatable. As a child, she and her family “moved through / the slums of Saint Louie, / like a band of VAGABONDS, / from shack to shack.” ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More