Don Tate, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Lee & Low, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-60060-260-3
In 1939 Montgomery, Ala., 85-year-old former slave Bill Traylor began to draw. In understated prose, Tate imagines the wellspring of memories that might have contributed to Traylor’s outpouring of art so late in life: jumping in the Alabama River as
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Don Tate. Peachtree, $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-56145-825-7
Born a slave, George Moses Horton taught himself to read, memorizing the poems he composed until he later learned to write. Hand-lettered excerpts of Horton’s writing amplify his successes and setbacks as he gains a reputation as a poet among...
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Don Tate. Charlesbridge, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58089-628-3
Tate (Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions) sheds light on a fascinating Victorian-era celebrity: Eugen Sandow (born in 1867 Prussia as Friedrich Wilhelm Müller), who helped usher in competitive bodybuilding. “Skinny” and “feeb
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Don Tate. Peachtree, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56145-935-3
Author-illustrator Tate (Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters) profiles abolitionist William Still in this clear, comprehensive narrative. Graceful free verse opens on Still’s family history: Levin and Sidney...
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Don Tate. Abrams, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4943-8
Ernie Barnes (1938–2009) is different from the kids in his community: “A boy who didn’t play sports? Who loved art, played the trombone, and enjoyed reading poetry?” In the Bottom, the African American neighborhood where Barnes lived in segregated...
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