**** 4 Starred Reviews!!! ****
“Alcántara matches Williams’s skillful narrative with fluid, atmospheric art... A lively, joyfully rendered portrait of a literary legend.”
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“Jump at the Sun" : the true life tale of unstoppable storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston”
written by: Alicia D. Williams
illustrated by: Jacqueline Alcántara
published by: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Atheneum Books for Young Readers / SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.
Book Description
From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature.
Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.
Reviews - 4 STARRED REVIEWS!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - STARRED REVIEW
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL - STARRED REVIEW
BCCB - STARRED REVIEW
“Newbery Honoree Williams crafts distinctive prose evoking Black folktales from the American South in this picture book biography of Zora Neale Hurston, “a girl who was attracted to tales like mosquitos to skin.” In colloquial and figurative language (“She spooned out Eatonville trickster tales to whoever’d sop ’em up”), Williams centers Hurston’s love of storytelling…” Publishers Weekly
“This introduction to an America icon feels just right” - Kirkus
“Alcántara’s luminous illustrations will immediately engage readers, with saturated colors and captivating use of shadow and light.” - SLJ
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Jan 12 : Book Releases into the wild!!!
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