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In this award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier during World War II.
I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you're a young black man in 1940, he doesn't want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.
So when you hear of a civilian pilot training...
53) My America
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An illustrated children's poem which celebrates the diversity of America.
54) Now We Are Six
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A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.
55) I saw your face
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A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.
56) Blues journey
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The African experience in America is brought to life in a poem that uses a call and response singing form common to the blues.
58) Patchwork island
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A mother making a quilt for her child stitches the varied topography of their beautiful island into her patchwork pattern
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These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.