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Lyons, Kelly Starling

Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations

32 pp. | Penguin/Paulsen | August, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-51609-5 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Keith Mallett. In 1900, "a girl learned a song" from her school principal, James Weldon Johnson (the poem's original author), for Lincoln's birthday. The song follows the girl's family through five generations, from the Great Migration to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Through emotion-filled text and rich illustrations, readers derive a sense of the anthem's collective historical and cultural significance, and the deeply personal connections it carries.
Reviewer: Monique Harris | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2019

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