Books by Jan Spivey Gilchrist and Complete Book Reviews
Eloise Greenfield, Author, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Author, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Illustrator Hyperion Books $13.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0326-2
In this holiday story set in 1943, Leanna, an African American girl in Chicago, and her older cousin Elizabeth in Washington, D.C., look forward to their respective Easter celebrations. The joys of black patent-leather shoes and hats with ribbons--de
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Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Author Writers & Readers Publishing $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-86316-210-7
This brief, lyrical book--the first that Gilchrist (illustrator of Nathaniel Talking and Night on Neighborhood Street ) has both written and illustrated--describes an epiphany experienced by Autrie, an African American girl. Stepping out onto the...
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Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Author Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2052-7
Gilchrist's (Singing Down the Rain, reviewed below) artistic ability outshines her storytelling in this spiritual tale. Madelia would rather use her new watercolors to paint pictures like those in her father's Bible than attend church. But Daddy, a...
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Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Author, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Illustrator, Ashley Bryan, Illustrator , illus. by Ashley Bryan and Gilchrist. HarperCollins $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-079104-9
In celebration of this country's diverse population comes a title that marries color and copy to create a luminous work of art. Set to Gilchrist's (When the Horses Ride By)
poetic verse, the text offers a series of questions that does not
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