Schomburg : the man who built a library / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 37 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- Children
- 9780763680466
- 076368046X
- Man who built a library
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 -- Juvenile literature
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History -- Juvenile literature
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
- Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
- 1900-1999
- African American historians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Historians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American book collectors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Book collectors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Picture books for children
- Illustrated children's books
- Children's literature -- Illustrations
- African Americans -- Biography
- Historians
- Book collectors
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Books & Libraries
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Cultural Heritage
- Picture books for children
- Illustrated children's books
- Children's literature
- African American book collectors
- African American historians
- African Americans -- Intellectual life
- Book collectors
- Historians
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans
- New York (State) -- New York
- United States
- 002.075 B 23
- E185.97.S36 W43 2017
- School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
- Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Middle Level Honoree, 2018
- The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category, 2018
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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*Hardcover | Ayers Biography | 92 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 408332 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Read by Ron Butler.
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.
Ages 9-12.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 6.9 1 193117.
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Middle Level Honoree, 2018
The Walter Award, Younger Readers Category, 2018