This child’s view of the long day’s work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. “With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a picture book for older readers, too.”--Booklist

Working Cotton

Children's Books

Williams, Sherley Anne.

Literature & Fiction

Clarion Books

Working Cotton (Caldecott Honor Book)

Geography & Cultures

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

Dessa Rose

Based on the lives of two nineteenthcentury women, this portrait of the South during slavery focuses on the slave Dessa Rose and her relationship with a white woman, Miss Rufel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BERKLEY

NY: Trumpet Club

A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California

Demco Media

Some one sweet angel chile

Poetry

W. Morrow

Based on the lives of two nineteenth-century women, this portrait of the South during slavery focuses on the slave Dessa Rose and her relationship with a white woman, Miss Rufel

United States

William Morrow & Co.

This child's view of the long day's work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet's resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. "With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a picture book for older readers, too."--"Booklist"

Teen & Young Adult

Turtleback Books

The Peacock Poems, Sherley Anne Williams’ first book of poetry, was nominated for a National Book Award. A former senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Ghana and visiting professor at the University of Southern California and Cornell University, Williams is professor of literature at the University of California at San Diego. She had received an Emmy Award for a television performance of her poetry. She is advisory editor of Callaloo and Langston Hughes Review. Williams was graduated from California State University (B.A. 1966) and Brown University (M.A. 1972). Her home is in San Diego.

The peacock poems (The Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 79)

Wesleyan University Press

Dessa Rose (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)

Thorndike Pr

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