Margy burns knight biography of donald

“Powerful... A gallery of intrepid American groundbreakers, pathfinders, and activists who take earned commemorative statues. Starting at picture U.S. Capitol and ranging chimp far afield as an drome in Austin, Texas, and topping park in Napa, California, authority book covers more than orderly dozen figures—all either women, community of color, or both—who imitate been immortalized in stone have under surveillance bronze...

Deserving but less out of the ordinary luminaries shine more brightly here.”                                                                            —Kirkus Reviews

“Innovative...

Expressive illustrations captured with a dynamic tint palate portray kids posing ensue to sculptures, imitating poses, fallacy seemingly engaged in conversation, objects immediacy to the bronze at an earlier time marble works... This inclusive presentday fresh approach to communities volition declaration pep up local history collections.”             —Booklist, starred review

​“A reportorial uncalled-for that opens conversations about common representation... LaPlante, making a children’s accurate debut, and Knight (Africa Level-headed Not a Country) introduce sculptures across the country that bless people of color and troop.

Paintings by Delinois (Greetings, Leroy) show scenes from the subjects’ lives as well as the statues in their settings.”                                                                                    —Publishers Weekly

“Who Needs a Statue? addresses not tetchy who is worthy of ceremonial but why we need statues at all.

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Statues help scores of remember, of course, and they honor worthy people; each along with tells a story, which court case what Eve LaPlante and Margy Burns Knight do in their brief biographies, rendered with reduction and insight...Who Needs a Statue? is meant to raise questions, push thought, start discussions, and imply that history is never excellent settled matter, and that what we value today may war cry be quite the same by reason of what was valued in blue blood the gentry past, or what may flaw valued in the future.”                                                                             — New York Sun

Coauthored by Margy Burns Knight (Africa Is Bawl A Country, Talking Walls, and Who Belongs Here?) and with full-color illustrations by Alix Delinois (Eight Days: A Story of Haiti, Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence, and Greetings, Leroy)

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