Monday, January 19, 2009

Uptown



Uptown

Written and Illustrated by: Bryan Collier

Elementary Grades

"A young boy provides a particularly inviting, personally guided tour of his uptown home, New York City's Harlem. The Metro-North railroad, chicken and waffles, shopping on 125th Street, the Apollo Theater, jazz, and summer basketball games at the playground are all part of his neighborhood's charm. As in Hope Lynne Price's These Hands (Hyperion, 1999), Collier's evocative watercolor-and-collage illustrations create a unique sense of mood and place. Bold color choices for text as well as background pages complement engagingly detailed pictures of city life."

School Library Journal Review


Awards:
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner, 2001

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