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To Be a Drum
By Coleman, Evelyn & Robinson, Aminah Brenda Lynn
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80758-006-6
- Publisher
- Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman & Company, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1998
Gr 2-4 This ambitious picture book celebrates the creativity and individuality of African Americans, beginning with the origin of human life when "the rhythm of the earth beat for the first people," filled the air with spirit, and flew into their bodies. This beat enables them to create actual and, possibly, symbolic drums. When the people are enslaved and carried to a new land where their "drums" are taken from them, they still feel the earth's beat in their bodies and become "living drums,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
