Full name: When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

Author: Pam Munoz Ryan Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Non Fiction, Music, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780439269674 0439269679

Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her voice, the strength of her character, and the struggles of the times in which she lived, it is only part of her story. Like the operatic arias Marian would come to sing, Ryan's text is as moving as a libretto, and Selznick's pictures as exquisitely detailed and elaborately designed as a stage set. What emerges most profoundly from their shared vision is a role model of courage. Similar books: Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown Mahalia Jackson by Nina Nolan Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg Strange Fruit by Gary Golio Mama Africa! by Kathryn Erskine Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee Watson My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks Leontyne Price by Carole Boston Weatherford If A Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold Muddy by Michael Mahin Fifty Cents and a Dream by Jabari Asim The Flag We Love by Pam Munoz Ryan Rosa by Nikki Giovanni