My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey

by Jeanne Walker Harvey

Book Overview

As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the North--people who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761458107
• ISBN13: 9780761458104
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Two Lions
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.0" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Great!

Great book to introduce R.B. Love The illustrations. Great book to use with an art study.