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The Sun Is So Quiet
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The Sun Is So Quiet Paperback - 2014

by Nikki Giovanni; Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

The perfect meeting of two great talents, The Sun Is So Quiet combines the magical designs of Ashley Bryan with 13 poems composed by award-win ning author Nikki Giovanni. Two artists who love children, and snow, and snuggling under warm quilts, and chocolate, and picking strawberries, and--especially--reading, invite everyone to share these perfect moments. Full color. Age s 4 and up.

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  • Title The Sun Is So Quiet
  • Author Nikki Giovanni; Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Square Fish, New York
  • Date 2014-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781250046697 / 1250046696
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.2 in (24.89 x 19.81 x 0.51 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Nikki Giovanni is the author of Lincoln and Douglass, Spin a Soft Black Song, The Sun Is So Quiet, and the Caldecott Honor Book Rosa. Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry.

Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) was a multi-award-winning children's book author and illustrator with several Coretta Scott King Awards, a Newbery Honor, and a Children's Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award) among his honors. Named one of New York Public Library's Literary Lions in 2008, he also taught art at such institutions as Dalton School, Philadelphia College of Art, Queens College, and Dartmouth College.

Telling stories of African folklore and the African-American experience for more than sixty years, his books include Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, Beautiful Blackbird, Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life and Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace. He also contributed his collage art to Richard Wright's Black Boy, Nikki Giovanni's The Sun Is So Quiet (a Parents' Choice Award-winner), and Langston Hughes's Carol of the Crown King: Nativity Poems among many others.

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