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Shange, Ntozake

Ellington Was Not a Street

40 pp. | Simon | January, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-82884-5 $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Shange's elegiac poem "Moon Indigo" serves as text for this picture book, which presents the poem from the point of view of a little girl whose family is visited by some of the great African-American men of the mid-twentieth century: Ellington, Du Bois, Robeson. Nelson's cool-toned illustrations are sleek and sophisticated but represent the poem--powerful and sad on its own--on only its most superficial level.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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