Weatherford, Carole Boston
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
PICTURE BOOK Candlewick Press,
2017. $16.99 Content: G.
Arturo Schomburg was told by his fifth grade teacher in Puerto Rico that Africa's people didn’t have a history. Arturo
spent the rest of his life gathering art, literature and other evidences of the
history and heroes of people of African decent.
Arturo gathered these pieces throughout his life and eventually sold
them so they could be put in a library and many others could have access to the
information.
This book is well done
because as we learn about Schomburg and his contributions to literature, we
also learn a little about the authors and artists that he was trying to bring
attention to. The illustrations are
fantastic. The writing style is poetic,
lengthy and has higher levels of vocabulary, so it’s not for early readers.
EL, MS – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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