Roll over image to zoom in Click on image to zoom

We Could Fly

Name: We Could Fly
Brand: Candlewick / Walker Books
SKU: 9781536222548-CWUSDTR
Price: 118.0 HKD
Availability: InStock

Rhiannon Giddens (Author) • Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (Illustrator) ... more

Edition: US - Hardback

Variant

Price:

HK$118.00 HK$190.00

Stock:

Re-stocking soon

Quantity:

Product Info

English • Age 6 - 9

40 pages • 10.19 x 12.13 x 0.39 in

Approx. weight: 1.28 lb

Publication date: 07 Nov,2023

Barcode: 9781536222548 • Candlewick / Walker Books

More books in English for Age 6 - 9

Children’s / Teenage fiction: General and modern fiction

Children’s / Teenage fiction: General modern and contemporary fiction
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism

Share this product

By: Rhiannon Giddens | Illustrator: Briana Mukodiri Uchendu

A Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner

"This magical picture book will have readers entranced. Sublime."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

In a companion to Build a House, Rhiannon Giddens—winner of multiple Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize and cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops—gives wing to a moving tale of grace and transcendence, with acclaimed artist Briana Mukodiri Uchendu.

At a sparrow’s urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it’s time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song “We Could Fly” by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which in turn draw on a heritage of African folklore, this incantatory dialogue between a mother and daughter paired with startlingly beautiful illustrations celebrates love, resilience, and the spiritual power of the “old-time ways”—tradition and shared cultural memory—to sustain and uplift.