Limit this search to....

It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
Contributor(s): Tate, Don (Author), Christie, R. Gregory (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1643790552     ISBN-13: 9781643790558
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
OUR PRICE:   $10.76  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2019
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Art
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Art - History
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.5" W x 10.3" (0.45 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Locality - Montgomery, Alabama
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Topical - Black History
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 151587
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Best Books, Kirkus Reviews
New Voices Award Honor, LEE & LOW BOOKS
Ezra Jack Book Award Honor, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library
Editor's Choice, Booklist
Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education
100 Magnificent Children's Books, Fuse #8 Production, SLJ
Books All Young Georgians Should Read, Georgia Center for the Book
Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators

The inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.

Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all day in the hot fields. When slavery ended, Bill's family stayed on the farm as sharecroppers. There Bill grew to manhood, raised his own family, and cared for the land and his animals.

By 1935 Bill was eighty-one and all alone on his farm. So he packed his bag and moved to Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. Lonely and poor, he wandered the busy downtown streets. But deep within himself Bill had a reservoir of memories of working and living on the land, and soon those memories blossomed into pictures. Bill began to draw people, places, and animals from his earlier life, as well as scenes of the city around him.

Today Bill Traylor is considered to be one of the most important self-taught American folk artists. Winner of Lee & Low's New Voices Award Honor, It Jes' Happened is a lively tribute to this man who has enriched the world with more than twelve hundred warm, energetic, and often humorous pictures.