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This novel \"transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. 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This engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading, the enchanting capacity of the imagination, and, of course, the splendor of libraries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToni Morrison's first book for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Box\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Giselle Potter, introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\/Paula Wiseman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 9.21w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781665915540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudience:\u003c\/b\u003e Ages 4-8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToni Morrison (1931-2019) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSong of Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSlade Morrison was born in Ohio and educated in New York City. He studied art at SUNY Purchase and collaborated with his mother, Toni Morrison, on their books for children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoe Cepeda is the illustrator of many award-winning picture books, including \u003ci\u003ePeeny Butter Fudge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tortoise or the Hare \u003c\/i\u003eby Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison, \u003ci\u003eWhat a Truly Cool World \u003c\/i\u003eby Julius Lester, \u003ci\u003eMice and Beans \u003c\/i\u003eby Pam Muñoz Ryan, and \u003ci\u003eGracias the Thanksgiving Turkey\u003c\/i\u003e by Joy Cowley. Mr. Cepeda received his BFA in illustration from California State University, Long Beach. His illustrations have appeared in publications such as the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBuzz, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLatina\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePascal Lemaitre illustrated Toni and Slade Morrison's bestselling Who's Got Game? series, as well as many other books for children. He and his family divide their time between Brussels, Belgium, where he teaches illustration, and Brooklyn, New York. Visit him online at PascalLemaitre.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiselle Potter has illustrated many books, including\u003ci\u003e Try It! \u003c\/i\u003eby Mara Rockliff, \u003ci\u003e All by Himself? \u003c\/i\u003eby Elana K. Arnold, and \u003ci\u003eKate and the Beanstalk\u003c\/i\u003e by Mary Pope Osborne, as well as her own \u003ci\u003eTell Me What to Dream About\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Is My Dollhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Year I Didn't Go to School\u003c\/i\u003e, about traveling through Italy with her parents' puppet troupe when she was eight. She lives in Rosendale, New York, with her husband and two daughters. Visit her at GisellePotter.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSean Qualls's work is a mixed media combination of painting, drawing, and collage. He has illustrated many picture books, including \u003ci\u003eBefore John Was a Jazz Giant\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Poet Slave of Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; \u003ci\u003eDizzy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean ALA Notable Book and a \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChild\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine best book, as well as BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice; and \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a Schneider Award winner and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShadra Strickland studied, design, writing, and illustration at Syracuse University and later went on to complete her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her work in her first picture book, \u003ci\u003eBird\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Zetta Elliott. Strickland coillustrated \u003ci\u003eOur Children Can Soar\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She teaches illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. 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The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.13h x 5.18w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804169882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). 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Morrison sees these fictions as a form of creation and projection, arguing that they helped manufacture American racial identity - these \"Africanist\" presences are \"the shadow that makes light possible,\" as Morrison writes, and the reflections of the authors' own deepest fears, insecurities, and longings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith profound erudition and wit, Morrison breaks wide open the American conception of race with energetic, enlivening readings of the nation's canon, revealing that our liberation from these diminishing notions comes through language. \"How,\" Morrison wonders, \"could one speak of profit, of economy, of labor, or progress, of suffragism, or Christianity, of the frontier, of the formation of new states, the acquisition of new lands ... of practically anything a new nation concerns itself with - without having as a referent, at the heart of the discourse or defining its edges, the presence of Africans and\/or their descendants?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo read these lectures, collected here for the first time, is to encounter Morrison, not just the writer but also the teacher, in the most profound and subversive way yet. 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