Charles R. Smith Jr.'s Books
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Stars in the ShadowsMeet Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and other baseball heroes in this unique radio broadcast reenactment of a legendary All-Star Game, marking a pivotal...Read More
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Chicago Crusader, April 26, 2013
...Sharon Flake, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Nikki Grimes, Catherine Ingram, Jewell Parker Rhodes, M. LaVora Perry, Harriette Gillem Robinet, Charles R. Smith, Jr., Hope Anita Smith, Glennette Tilley Turner, Darwin MacBeth Walton, Walter Dean Myers, and Camille...
Detroit News, April 17, 2013
...illustrations also animate the stirring text of "Brick by Brick" (Amistad/HarperCollins, $17.99, ages 7-10). Here, award-winning poet Charles R. Smith Jr. highlights the slaves who helped build the White House. Karen MacPherson, the childrens/teen...
School Library Journal, March 25, 2013
...workers are joined by slave labor to get the job done. In highlighting their work, poet and author Charles R. Smith Jr. focuses squarely on the hands of the laborers. Gentle rhyming text tells the tale, pulling in facts along the way. For example, we see...
Newsday, February 15, 2013
...slave labor? This rich history is slowly being mined for children's books. "Brick by Brick," by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Amistad, $17.99, ages 4-8), tells the story of how slaves, on loan from owners, raised the original White...
School Library Journal, February 5, 2013
...a young child’s picture book, the complicated concepts, vocabulary, and mature images are best for older students. Charles R. Smith Jr.’s book, I Am America (Cartwheel, 2003), is a better fit for earlier grades. Annotated quotations and art notes...
Columbus Dispatch, February 1, 2013
...individual hopes and dreams. • Brick by Brick (Amistad, 32 pages, $17.99, ages 5 to 8) by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Floyd Cooper In spare poetry, Smith follows the slaves who in the 1790s helped construct the White House. Cooper supplies...
Kirkus Reviews, January 26, 2013
...here in the Thomas-Cooper collaboration.) Lastly, as we wrap up inauguration week, I enthusiastically recommend another Cooper-illustrated title, Charles R. Smith Jr.’s Brick by Brick, which may still be new to many readers, as it was released at the...
Chicago Crusader, April 26, 2013
...Sharon Flake, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Nikki Grimes, Catherine Ingram, Jewell Parker Rhodes, M. LaVora Perry, Harriette Gillem Robinet, Charles R. Smith, Jr., Hope Anita Smith, Glennette Tilley Turner, Darwin MacBeth Walton, Walter Dean Myers, and Camille...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 23, 2013
...illustrations also animate the stirring text of "Brick by Brick" (Amistad/HarperCollins, $17.99, ages 7-10). Here, award-winning poet Charles R. Smith Jr. highlights the slaves who helped build the White House. Several other books of poetry that...
Detroit News, April 17, 2013
...illustrations also animate the stirring text of "Brick by Brick" (Amistad/HarperCollins, $17.99, ages 7-10). Here, award-winning poet Charles R. Smith Jr. highlights the slaves who helped build the White House. Karen MacPherson, the childrens/teen...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 26, 2013
...Bella Bird are best friendsbut not exactly the same. Ages 2 to 6. I Am the World by Charles R. Smith Jr. (July 9, hardcover, $17.99, ISBN 978-1442423022). Poems and photos depict our global community. Ages 3 to 7. The Pet Project by Lisa Wheeler,...
Newsday, February 17, 2013
...slave labor? This rich history is slowly being mined for children's books. "Brick by Brick," by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Amistad, $17.99, ages 4-8), tells the story of how slaves, on loan from owners, raised the original White...
Newsday, February 15, 2013
...slave labor? This rich history is slowly being mined for children's books. "Brick by Brick," by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Amistad, $17.99, ages 4-8), tells the story of how slaves, on loan from owners, raised the original White...
PennLive.com, February 9, 2013
...anchor Valerie Pritchett, accompanied by a hulking, lovable Susquehanna Service Dog named Fire, read "I Am America" by Charles R. Smith, Jr. Floyd Stokes, president of American Literacy Corp. who's also known as SuperReader, and his daughters read books...
