Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor
Robert F. Sibert
Informational Book Award, Honor
Boston Globe-Horn
Book Award, Nonfiction Honor
Parent's Choice Gold
Medal for Poetry 2014
Wall Street
Journal’s 10 Best Children's Books of the Year List
Bologna Ragazzi
Nonfiction Honor 2014
In exuberant verse
and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson
create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate
performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who
worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in
the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist,
Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration
and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
