Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Author: Jason Reynolds Category: Art, Family, Graphic Novels and Comic Books, High School and (Young) Adult, Middle School, Perseverance and Determination, Poetry and Lyrical Stories, Prejudice and Racism Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Language: English Reading Age: High School and (Young) Adult Illustrator: Jason Griffin More DetailsA Caldecott Honor winner!
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.
And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.
Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Written by Jason Reynolds
Illustrated by Jason Griffin
Source: Publisher (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
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