Description

D is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet showcases many of the remarkable achievements of and contributions from African Americans throughout history. Evocative watercolor paintings from Caldecott Honor-winning E. B. Lewis perfectly capture the spirit of each letter topics poem and expository text.Thomson Gale

About the Author
Nancy I. Sanders grew up on a Pennsylvania dairy farm that has been in her family since before the American Revolution. Now she lives in southern California where she enjoys researching and writing about the important contributions men and women made during the founding years of our country. She is the author of over 75 books including A Kid’s Guide to African American History (2007, Second Edition, Chicago Review Press). Her picture book, D is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet (illustrated by E. B. Lewis, 2007, Sleeping Bear Press) is winner of the 2007 NAPPA Honors Award and the 2008 IRA Teachers’ Choice Award. It was also selected as a 2007 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and was a finalist in the USABooksNews.com Best Books 2007 Awards.
E.B. Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, which was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, and This Little Light of Mine. He received the Caldecott Honor for Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes. E.B. Lewis lives in New Jersey,