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Gr 2-6 Dawes begins this book with an introduction that is well worth reading in its entirety. One day, he explains, Feelings handed him a folder filled with faces of young people he had sketched over the course of his career, while living in several different parts of the world. Dawes states that what he saw was "the story of Africa and her diaspora." This poem, written in response to those drawings, is a moving tribute to Feelings's creativity and artistry. The ver...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Though Tom Feelings is associated with significant images and overarching themes—the heroic figures of To Be a Slave and The Middle Passage; the descriptive tableaux of Moja Means One and Jambo Means Hello—a case can be made that he is at his best not as an illustrator, depicting set subjects, but as a sketch artist, making on-the-spot drawings of people and places. An earlier album of Feelings's drawings of children (with verses by Eloise Gr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More