We are America : a tribute from the heart/ Walter Dean Myers ; [illustrated by] Christopher Myers.

Author

Walter Dean Myers

Call Number

• J 811 MYER (OSH)

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Edition

1st ed. ; Book w/CD

Performers

Read by multi-cast (narrators: Macleod Andrews, Olivia DuFord, Dion Graham, Lizann Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, Kaipo Schwab. Additional narration by Kim Meijer, Jenny Alogna and Kelley Rose Alogna.).

Publication Information

New York, NY : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2011.

Physical Description

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (33 min., 51 sec. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Audience

"All Ages"--Inside front dust-jacket.

Summary

Examines the events and people that have shaped America, providing portraits of figures such as Chief Tecumseh, President Abraham Lincoln, and musician Jimi Hendrix, and featuring lyrical, free-verse poetic text.

Notes

Accompanying CD published by Live Oak Media, Pine Plains, N.Y., p2012.

Contents

• Before there was America
• Before I knew that there was America
• I found an endless land
• Before there was an America
• We called ourselves Bostonians
• We raised up factories and farms, great houses and small
• We were willing to die to forge our dream
• Like clumsy children we fell
• We moved on stubbornly
• We were machines belching smoke
• We were the flat gold plains of Kansas
• We are America
• And from the tensions
• To each child a freedom dream.