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    Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
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    Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
    Ebook34 pages7 minutes

    Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

    By Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community. Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded their horizons beyond the narrow limits of segregation. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
    Release dateFeb 1, 2014
    ISBN9780807576519
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    Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
    Author

    Carole Boston Weatherford

    Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. 

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    • 3/5
      Great artwork, nice rhyming scheme and good historical notes at the end made me happy.
    • 4/5
      Love this walk back in time to what Sugar Hill once was and the people that lived there. Great history that shows the wide range of black americans who contributed in important ways to arts, music, and science. The illustrations are fun and it would be a great way to get kids to look at the idea of community and neighborhoods.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun, entertaining book that I thoroughly enjoyed. The main message of this book is to inform children of the wonderful old historic neighborhood, Harlem. It also provides great inside into a different culture. I liked this book because of the rhyming words. For example one page stated," Sugar hill, sugar hill where life if sweet and the Nicholas brothers rest their feet." Rhyming words are a fun way to read and are also great for emerging readers. I also liked the illustrations. They were big, fun pictures. This made the story really come to life and the reader is able to really imagine what life if like in Harlem. The one thing I did not like about the book was the way the author set up the words. One page the words would be in several different fonts and all over the place. Some words would be going diagonal, vertical, and squiggly. This could make it really difficult for children to follow and read.