W. Nikola-Lisa

Shake Dem Halloween Bones

From sunrise to sunset, an African-American boy spends an activity-filled summer day helping his family on their farm in Texas in the 1950s by feeding animals, mowing hay, picking vegetables, and eating freshly caught fish.

Summer Sun Risin'

In a rap-style prose poem, a racially mixed group of children enjoying a sunny day at the playground discovers the virtues of racial diversity and, at the same time, the basic identity of all human beings

Bein' with You this Way

Don Tate

Wake up, little one - summer sun's a-risin'! So begins a young boy's busy day as Ma gently wakes him. After a hearty breakfast he sets out to help Pa do the morning chores. After the noontime meal, he's out again with Pa to mow the fields of hay, help Ma in the vegetable garden and fish in the stream. As the sun slips lower in the sky, it's time for a dinner, a bedtime story and a night of sleep under a starry sky.

It's Halloween night. The city is quiet. The city is still. But as the lights go down, the music comes up - and the guests start to arrive at the hip-hop Halloween ball! And oh, what a party it is. Told in hip-hop rhyming text, L'il Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and all of their fairy-tale friends come together for a rapping, stomping, shaking Halloween romp. Scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah!

"Through direct quotations, verse, and prose, presents the achievements of a diverse group of people who illustrate Dr. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Includes information about the eight basic ways people can be "smart" and suggestedactivities"--Provided by publisher.

W. Nikola-Lisa

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