106 // Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker / Patricia Hruby Powell ill, C. Robinson

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker / Patricia Hruby Powell ill, C. Robinson

• Chronicle books

• 2014

• In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself. - from Amazon

• Biography - informative text - poetry

• This one was long for a picture book... It was vivid and beautiful in both text and pictures however! So many brilliant descriptive words. I can also tell that Robinson's art is well researched for the time period! The fashion is gorgeous!