Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller - Hardcover

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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller - Hardcover

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller - Hardcover

by Breanna J. McDaniel
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Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Kirkus Best Books of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year
New York Public Library Best Books of the Year
ALSC Notable Children's Books
Horn Book Fanfare
BolognaRazzi Award: Braw Amazing Bookshelf Sustainability Selection
ILA 2025 Notable Books for a Global Society
CLA/NCTE 2025 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
NCSS 2025 Septima P. Clark Book Award Winner (Middle Level)
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From an award-winning author and illustrator comes this picture book biography about beloved librarian and storyteller Augusta Braxton Baker, the first Black coordinator of children's services at all branches of the New York Public Library.

Before Augusta Braxton Baker became a storyteller, she was an excellent story listener. Her grandmother brought stories like Br'er Rabbit and Arthur and Excalibur to life, teaching young Augusta that when there's a will, there's always a way. When she grew up, Mrs. Baker began telling her own fantastical stories to children at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library in Harlem. But she noticed that there were hardly any books at the library featuring Black people in respectful, uplifting ways. Thus began her journey of championing books, writers, librarians, and teachers centering Black stories, educating and inspiring future acclaimed authors like Audre Lorde and James Baldwin along the way.

As Mrs. Baker herself put it: "Children of all ages want to hear stories. Select well, prepare well and then go forth and just tell."
ISBN9780593324202
Author Breanna J. McDaniel
PublisherDial Books
GenreChildren, Society & culture, and Biography
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages40
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller - Hardcover

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller - Hardcover

By Breanna J. McDaniel

About Breanna J. McDaniel

Breanna J. McDaniel is the author of picture books, Hands Up!, Impossible Moon, and Cute Toot. A proud alumna of Emory University and Simmons University, she holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where she focused her research on surveillance and respectability politics in representations of Black children as food in contemporary picture books. Breanna spends her free time as an activist, where she promotes different types of literacy for families across the country. Savanna Durr is an illustrator based in Richmond, VA. She has always had a love for art and has spent her life being inspired by animated movies, cartoons, and children's books. She focuses on creating representation within her work in the hope that others can look at her art and see themselves.

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