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Words to my life's song / by Ashley Bryan ; with photographs by Bill McGuinness.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3552.R848 Z46 2009 Bryan copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryan, Ashley, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bryan, Ashley--Juvenile literature.
- Bryan, Ashley.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, American.
- African American authors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American authors.
- Children's stories--Authorship--Juvenile literature.
- Children's stories.
- African American illustrators--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American illustrators.
- African American artists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American artists.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Children's stories--Authorship.
- Genre:
- Picture books for children.
- picture books.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bryan, Ashley (donor)
- Ashley Bryan Center (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 58 pages (in 5 sections) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 27 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition]
- Other Title:
- Ashley Bryan
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2009]
- Summary:
- An introduction to the life and career of the writer and artist Ashley Bryan, a three-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.
- Ashley's autobiography is full of art, photographs, an the poignant never-say-never tale of his rich life, a life that has always included drawing and painting. Even as a boy growing up during the Depression, he painted -- finding cast off objects to turn into books and kites and toy and art. Even as a soldier in the segregated Army on the beaches of Normandy, he sketched -- keeping charcoal crayons and paper in his gasmask to draw with during lulls. Even as a talented, visionary art student who was accepted and then turned away from college upon arrival, the school telling Ashley that to give a scholarship to an African American student would be a waste, he painted -- continuing to create art when he could have been discouraged, continuing to polish his talents when his spirit should have been beaten. Ashley went on to become a Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee, a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, and a multiple Coretta Scott King award winner. As you might imagine, his story is powerful, bursting with his creative energy, and a testament to believing in oneself. It's a book every child in America should have access to and it does what the very best autobiographies do; it inspires! -- From amazon.com.
- Notes:
- "Three-time Coretta Scott King award winner" -- Cover.
- Book design by Michael McCartney,
- Notable Books for a Global Society, Biography, 2010
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Bryan copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Ashley Bryan and the Ashley Bryan Center.
- Bryan copy in 5 sections, with dustjacket around them.,
- ISBN:
- 9781416905417
- OCLC:
- 217263759
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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