Hand in Hand

Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Contributors

By Andrea Pinkney

Illustrated by Brian Pinkney

Read by Phil Morris

Read by Adam Gifford

Read by Zeno Robinson

Read by Kyle Chapple

Read by Ron Butler

Read by Mela Lee

Formats and Prices

Format

Format:

  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  3. Hardcover $24.99 $31.99 CAD

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In this New York Times Notable Children's Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country.

Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject, punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading.

Profiled:

  • Benjamin Banneker
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King, Jr
  • Barack H. Obama II

Genre:

  • "A unique historical approach, superbly handled."
    Walter Dean Myers
  • "[The] stories in this beautifully written book are equally fascinating, and entire volume is movingly enhanced by poetry and by the inviting, creative illustrations of Brian Pinkney."
    New York Times
  • "The inviting narrative and eloquent portrayal of these iconic men and the times in which they lived make for memorable reading."
    Publishers Weekly (starred review)

On Sale
Jun 8, 2021
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781549111488

Andrea Pinkney

About the Author

Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a New York Times best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which was illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

Brian Pinkney (www.brianpinkney.net) has frequently collaborated with his wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Some of their other books include, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, for which Brian was awarded a Caldecott Honor. Brian was also a Caldecott Honoree for The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci , and he won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L.Siegelson.

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Brian Pinkney

About the Illustrator

Brian Pinkney has illustrated numerous books for children, including two Caldecott Honor books, and he has written and illustrated several of his own books. Brian has received the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration and three Coretta Scott King Book Award Honor medals.

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