Sidewalk Chalk Paperback by Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated by Dimitrea Tokunbo

Product Details

• Publisher: Wordsong (2006-01-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 32 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781590784150
• Item Weight: 136.08 grams
• Dimensions: 10.0 x 8.0 x 0.15 cm

Children's Literature Legacy Award winning author Carole Boston Weatherford pays tribute to sights and sounds of urban life in twenty fresh and rhythmic poems.

At every corner, down every block, a city percolates with people at work and play: girls jumping double Dutch, the shoeshine man polishing a pair of wing tips, boys heading toward the basketball court. Each neighborhood is filled with unique characters (the beautician, the barber, the short-order cook) and places (the storefront churches, the outdoor market, the park pool) - all as familiar as family. In quiet moments and lively street scenes, Weatherford's words and Dimitrea Tokunbo's vivid illustrations captures the excitement and diversity found in these places that have "no trees / to climb" but where people young and old still "reach for the stars."

About the Author

New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer,and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com. 

Dimitrea Tokunbo is the illustrator of Has Anybody Lost a Glove? by G. Francis Johnson. She lives in New York City.