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My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey

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As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother’s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the North—individuals who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the arena whizzed by. Later he captured the ones scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. The usage of that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey describes the patchwork of day by day southern life that Romare saw out the train’s window and the tale of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics these days praise Bearden’s collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. Elizabeth Zunon’s illustrations of painted scenes blended with collage are a stirring tribute to a remarkable artist.

My Hands Sing the Blues is the recipient of the 2012 IRA Childrens and Young Adults Book Award-Number one Non-Fiction, in addition to the gold winner of a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award within the category of Picture Book-All Ages.

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