Monday, September 25, 2017

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford - ADVISABLE

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.

No comments: