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Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem

32 pp. | MoMA | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-87070-965-4 $18.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Christopher Myers. Myers brings vibrant life to a poetic story of African American painter Jacob Lawrence's youth growing up in 1930 Harlem. Myers's art, a true representation of Lawrence's own style, invites young readers into the era and place, depicting everyday activities such as men playing checkers on a stoop and preachers shouting in the street. A biographical note and reproductions are appended.
Reviewer: Henrietta M. Smith

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