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Gr 2–5—"The first time James Baldwin read a book, the words clung to him like glitter." Poet Harris (We Made It to School Alive) certainly has a way with words and deploys them generously to invite children into the imagination, experience, and passions of James Baldwin. Finding an ideal partner in illustrator James (I Am Every Good Thing), whose oil on boards capture the child, the Harlem surroundings, the greater world that adopted Baldwin before his home country did, Harris creates a spirited, vividly realized version of the events of the subject's childhood. An inveterate book...Log In or Sign Up to Read More