My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey Cover:Hardcover • 2018 The Boston Globe

• 2018 The Boston Globe Foundation and The Horn Book winner

Age Range:    2 - 5

where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram

jump ropes for leaping and dancing

recently returned to town

My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey Cover:Hardcover • 2018 The Boston GlobeAs a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great grandmothers Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the Northpeople who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the