Virginia Hamilton

Gebundenes Buch

Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (Loa #348)

Zeely / The House of Dies Drear / The Planet of Junior Brown / M.C. Higgins, the Great / Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Herausgeber: Rubini, Julie K

Beschreibung

Rediscover America's most honored writer of children's literature in this deluxe collector's edition of her finest work: five classic novels about African American young people confronting the world and its many challenges Sometimes called "the Toni Morrison of children's literature" (The Crisis), Virginia Hamilton wove Black folktales and narratives of African American life and history into her fiction, a body of work she collectively described as "liberation literature." Library of America now presents five of her most beloved novels together in one volume for the first time. In the female coming-of-age story Zeely (1967), Hamilton's first novel, Geeder Perry and her brother, Toeboy, go to their uncle's farm for the summer and encounter a six-and-a-half-foot-tall Watusi queen and a mysterious night traveler.Inthe Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning The House of Dies Drear (1968), Thomas Small and his family move to the great and forbidding House of Dies Drear, once a waystation on the Underground Railroad. Can they unlock the house's secrets before it's too late? The Planet of Junior Brown(1971), a National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor Book, tells the story of a three-hundred-pound musical prodigy who plays a piano with no sound while his homeless friend draws on all his wit and New York City resources to save him. In M.C. Higgins, the Great(1974), the first book ever to win the John Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the National Book Award, Mayo Cornelius Higgins, called M.C., sits atop a forty-foot pole on the side of Sarah's Mountain and dreams of escape. But poised above his family's home is a massive spoil heap from strip-mining that could come crashing down at any moment. Can he rescue his family and save his own future? Must he choose? Confronting such issues as child abuse, single-parent families, and the death of a young person, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982) novel turns on the appearances and disappearances of a ghost, Brother Rush. It won the Boston Globe-Horn Book and Coretta Scott King awards and was a Newbery Honor Book. Rounding out the volume are a selection of essays and speeches about the novels, including Hamilton's Newbery acceptance speech for M. C. Higgins, the Great.

Autor

Virginia Hamilton (1934-2002) was awarded the Newbery Medal (in 1975, for M.C Higgins, the Great, becoming the first black writer so honored), three Newbery Honors, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among many other honors. In 1995 she was the recipient of the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for the body of her work; that same year she became the first children's writer to be named a MacArthur Fellow (the "Genius" grant). Hamilton is also one of only a handful of Americans to win the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal, known as "The Little Nobel Prize." Julie K. Rubini is the author of several biographies for young readers, including Virginia Hamilton: America's Storyteller, Missing Millie Benson: The Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist, and Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan. She is the founder of Claire's Day, a children's book festival in honor of her late daughter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Library of America
• Seitenzahl: 908
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 135mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9781598537017
• ISBN-10: 1598537016
• Artikelnr.: 60884521