Gail Lumet Buckley, Author, Tonya Bolden, Adapted by, Tonya Bolden, Author Crown Publishers $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-82243-8
African-American heroes take center stage in American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Buckley, adapted for younger readers by Tonya Bolden, from the author's adult book (with the same ...
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Chaka Khan, Author, Tonya Bolden, Author, Tonya Bolden, Joint Author with Tonya Bolden. Rodale $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57954-826-1
Young enough to be Aretha Franklin's daughter and old enough to be Lil' Kim's mom, Chaka Khan—with her dynamic 1970s funk, her powerful vocals and her outrageous stage performances—is a link between Franklin's soul music...
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Dionne Warwick, Author, David Freeman Wooley, Author, Tonya Bolden, Author , illus. by Soud. Running/RPKids $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7624-3268-4
The title is borrowed from one of Warwick's timeless collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, but her book is a flat, pedestrian self-esteem primer. Little D lives in a multicultural neighborhood and walks the straight and narrow path.
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Tonya Bolden, Bloomsbury, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59990-318-7
Bolden's (FDR's Alphabet Soup) historical novel about family roots revolves around a series of collected photographs from the 1900s. Raised in Charleston, W.Va., by her withdrawn grandfather and prudent Aunt Tilley, both liberated slaves, 12-year-old
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Tonya Bolden. Abrams, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2546-3
Adopting a conversational tone, Bolden (Crossing Ebenezer Creek) recounts the “legend’s life” of “the de facto president of [19th-century] black America,” Frederick Douglass, né Bailey (1818–1895). Douglass—a self-emancipated slave, orator, writer,...
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Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59990-319-4
Since the start of the Civil War, Mariah has dreamed of a Yankee victory that will grant her and her fellow enslaved men, women, and children their freedom. After Union soldiers show up to loot her Georgia plantation in November 1864, she, her...
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Tonya Bolden. Abrams, $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1455-9
In an immersive series of brief, chronological biographies, Bolden (Capital Days) highlights 16 pioneering African-American men and women, beginning with Venture Smith—the son of a West African prince who was sold into slavery, freed himself and his
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Tonya Bolden, Author ABRAMS $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4527-2
Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists by Tonya Bolden offers a thorough look into the lives of black artists. She begins with artists such as sculptor Edmonia Lewis and painter Edward Mitchell Bannister and chronicles the...
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Tonya Bolden, Author . Knopf $19.99 (136p) ISBN 978-0-375-85214-5
Bolden's (George Washington Carver
) vivid and well-researched account of America's New Deal comprises detail-packed chapters bursting with acronyms, explanatory sidebars, margins filled with quotations, and b&w photos. The concise,...
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Tonya Bolden, Author . Abrams $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5045-0
Bolden (The Champ
, reviewed above) lucidly relays the illuminating life history of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, born a free black in 1848 in lower Manhattan. The author draws her biographical sketch primarily from Lyons's unpublished memoir,...
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Tonya Bolden, Author . Abrams $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4496-1
In what her preface describes as "this scrapbook, this witness of the black experience in miniature," Bolden (The Book of African-American Women) presents a pastiche of visuals and narratives spotlighting American children of African descent,
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by Eric Velasquez. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0792-6
Bolden (Maritcha: A 19th Century American Girl) expands a pleasingly simple premise into a depiction of the profound possibility of prayer. It’s night. An “amber orb”—the moon—floats above the city, and a boy startles awake in bed, having forgotten...
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Tonya Bolden, Author, Pat Barker, Author, Ansel Pitcairin, Illustrator Dutton Books $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-47043-4
A number of nonfiction texts give voice to important historical events and figures. Visually captivating and rich in detail, Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden, illus. by Ansel Pitcairn, traces the lives and achievements of 10...
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by Gilbert Ford. Abrams, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0542-7
Bolden (Finding Family) riffs on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” in this tour of New York City, chronicled by a visiting teacher and her students: “On our first day in New York,/ Just guess what we did see.../ The Statue of Liberty.” While Bolden’s...
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Tonya Bolden, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Knopf $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-89485-8
Bolden's (33 Things Every Girl Should Know) impressionistic poem is a paean to the strong religious tradition that has provided generations of African-Americans with guidance, solace, refuge, sustenance and inspiration. The author personifies...
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Tonya Bolden, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41800-9
"Bolden's impressionistic poem is a paean to the strong religious tradition that has provided generations of African-Americans with guidance, solace, refuge, sustenance and inspiration," said PW
. "Christie's collage-like...
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Tonya Bolden, Author, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrator, R. Gregory Gregory Christie, Illustrator , illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Knopf $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82401-2
The creators of Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church
present an impressionistic tribute to the man born as Cassius Clay. Bolden shapes a poetic if awkwardly paced narrative that includes self-assured quotes by the fighter, often in his...
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Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68119-807-1
This captivating historical novel, set in rapidly changing post–Civil War Savannah, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., traces a young African-American woman’s transformation as she moves from service into high society. With evocative flashbacks and...
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Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68119-804-0
Following Inventing Victoria, Bolden returns to the world of upper-class African-American society in historical Washington, D.C., where she explores the tumultuous changes of 1919—the fight for women’s suffrage, the New Negro movement, the growth of
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. HarperCollins, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-0629-9438-7
Music reverberates throughout this striking biographical tribute to rock and roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973). Starting as a “pint-size sensation in tiny/ Cotton Plant, Arkansas,” Tharpe is known for having “music in your air,/ in...
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by Eric Velasquez. Quill Tree, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-296740-4
Bolden recounts the moving story of mail carrier Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), originator of the Green Book—a guide used by Black travelers to navigate Jim Crow–era America, where “these travelers... could face hassles, humiliations, hardships....
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by Eric Velasquez. HarperCollins, $21.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-257204-2
“Listen then to the people who created this country, kept it from disunion, and brought more of its citizens into the fullness of their rights,” invites the foreword (by late journalist Cokie Roberts) of this inspirational collection of speeches....
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Roberta Flack with Tonya Bolden, illus. by Hayden Goodman. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5934-7987-2
Music proves “My treasure./My gold” in this autobiographical picture book centering singer Roberta Flack (b. 1937). Raised without “fancy-fine clothes,/ high-priced toys,/ or other richy-rich/ things,” Flack grew up in a musical household in...
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