Title: Never Forgotten
Author: Patricia Mckissack
Illustrator: Leo & Diane Dillon
Age: 11-14
Award: Coretta Scott King Author Honor
It is a picture book for older readers, a collection of
poems focused on the slavery experience from Africa to the Americas. While
the book addresses, in a way, slavery as a whole, it is also a personal
narrative in that it focuses on one young man--taken from his family, his
community. The book has folklore elements to it as well, as several of the
poems are narrated by wind, water, fire, etc.
I definitely liked the text more than the artwork, but that is just me. I liked the personal aspect to it--tracing the loss in his family, in his community; the always-wanting, always-missing, always-wondering aspect of it. This one is more a story about those left behind. So it is unique, in my opinion.
I definitely liked the text more than the artwork, but that is just me. I liked the personal aspect to it--tracing the loss in his family, in his community; the always-wanting, always-missing, always-wondering aspect of it. This one is more a story about those left behind. So it is unique, in my opinion.
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