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Alvin Ailey - (Reading Rainbow Books) by Andrea Pinkney (Paperback)

Alvin Ailey - (Reading Rainbow Books) by  Andrea Pinkney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This markedly talented husband-and-wife team offers a warm profile of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey . . . intertwining Ailey's alleged thoughts and conversations with facts about his childhood, his introduction to the world of dance . . . and his founding of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review. Full color.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels <i>Bird in a Box, a Today Show</i> Al Roker Book Club pick<i>, </i> and <i>With the Might of Angels</i>, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book <i>Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters</i>, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include <i>Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which was<i></i>illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

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