Ain't Burned All the Bright (Compact Disc)
$19.99
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January/February 2022 Kids Indie Next List
“If there’s ever been a person to write about these times of BLM protests, conflict, COVID, it’s Jason Reynolds. Three illustrated poems get to the heart and pain of the matter, make the reader face the Truth, and are full of pain and hope.”
— Melissa Fox, Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, KS
Description
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written and performed by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Featuring a bonus performance of the text by an ensemble of young voices.Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW. And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.