By Christian Robinson, Patricia Hruby Powell
In exuberant verse and stirring images, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create a unprecedented portrait for children of the passionate performer and civil rights recommend Josephine Baker, the girl who labored her manner from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest levels on this planet. Meticulously researched by way of either writer and artist, Josephine's robust tale of fight and triumph is an thought and a spectacle, like the legend herself.
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Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame I am quite used to being considered too spectacular. My own brother, a colonel of engineers, thought my prewar stories about the atomic bomb and atomic weapons to be sheer moonshine; he has since flown over Hiroshima and changed his mind. April 20, 1947: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame I am starting a short, Luna City series, slanted for Post, tomorrow. Like the hired man said, "We've had a lot of trouble around here," but you may expect regular copy for some time hence.
Well, I seem to be part of the "rest of their list," the part that makes up their losses-for I certainly did not appear to be a writer they were willing to take even a little chance on, when it came to scratch. I was simply dumped. Furthermore, the ms. couldn't have been bad enough to justify dumping me in view of the fact that three other editors bought it…and then it went on to win the Hugo [Award] for [1959]. ) It seems to me that, if the pious crap they hand out about "taking a chance" on authors actually meant anything, Mr.
But it took the deaths of Romeo and Juliet to show the families Montague and Capulet what damned fools they were being. Poddy's death (it seems to me) is similarly indispensable to this story. The true tragedy in this story lies in the character of the mother, the highly successful career woman who wouldn't take time to raise her own kids-and thereby let her son grow up an infantile monster, no real part of the human race and indifferent to the wellbeing of others…until the death of his sister, under circumstances which lay on him a guilt he can never shake off, gives some prospect that he is now going to grow up.