Laban Carrick Hill: 3 books
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Mark Kurlansky, Paul Fleischman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Welcome to 1968 — a revolution in a book. Essays, memoirs, and more by fourteen award-winning authors offer unique perspectives on one of the world’s most tumultuous years.
Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans...
When the Beat Was Born
DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.
On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between...
Casa Azul
An Encounter with Frida Kahlo
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Frida Kahlo's work comes to life—literally—in this magical realist novel, the latest addition to Watson-Guptill's acclaimed Art Encounters series. The story alternates between Kahlo's home in Mexico City, Casa Azul, and the journey of a teenage girl and her young brother, lost in the city. At...