Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Title:

Standing in the need of prayer : a modern retelling of the classic spiritual / written by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison..

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2022]

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Summary:

The popular spiritual, Standing in the need of prayer, has been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American people and their history. The text and illustrations of this inspirational book are informative reminders of yesterday, hopeful images for today, and aspirational dreams of tomorrow.

Subjects:

African Americans -- Prayers and devotions -- Juvenile literature.

Spirituals (Songs) -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Sacred songs -- Juvenile literature.

Prayer -- Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Folk songs.

Other Author:

Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator.

Other Title:

Adaptation of (work): Standin' in de need o' prayer.

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, 2023.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, 2023.

Contents:

References: Slavery -- Nat Turner -- The American Civil War -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- The great migration -- The Tuskegee Airmen -- Music -- Ruby Bridges -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- FloJo [Florence Griffith Joyner] -- Colin Kaepernick -- Black Lives Matter.

LCCN:

2022945521

ISBN:

9780593306345

0593306341

9780593306352

059330635X

Other Number:

1296166829

System Availability:

5

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

5

Control Number:

988318

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

jp Weatherf