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Weatherford, Carole Boston

Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

32 pp. | Whitman | February, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-7650-2 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. "Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill where life is sweet" repeats throughout this rhymed tribute to Harlem's storied neighborhood, home of many well-to-do African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, including Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, Thurgood Marshall, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Christie's pastel-hued illustrations and Weatherford's poetry give a strong sense of vibrant simultaneous action, and neither slides into nostalgia.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2014