Harriette Gillem Robinet

Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues

Illustrator: Colón, Raúl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in the summer of 1956.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 118g
• ISBN-13: 9780689838866
• ISBN-10: 0689838867
• Artikelnr.: 21573177

Autorenporträt

Harriette Gillem Robinet was born in Washington, DC, and spent her childhood summers in Arlington, Virginia where her mother’s father had been a slave under General Robert E. Lee. She attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and received graduate degrees in microbiology from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The author of several award-winning books for children, Ms. Robinet makes her home in Oak Park, Illinois. Raúl Colón has illustrated several highly acclaimed picture books including the New York Times bestselling Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt and Susanna Reich’s José! Born to Dance, which received a starred review in Booklist. Mr. Colón lived in Puerto Rico as a young boy and now resides in New City, New York, with his family.