Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African American Poets

By Helen Elmira Waite

Book Overview

""Make A Joyful Sound"" is a biography that delves into the romantic relationship between Mabel Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell. The book explores how Mabel, who was deaf, met Bell and helped him... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590674323
• ISBN13: 9780590674324
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

An excellent cross-curricular teaching tool.

A few years ago my neice and nephew received a copy of this book as a Christmas present. Since then, I have purchased several copies for gifts to friends and family members. I have also recommeded acquiring copies of this book to many school librarians, public libraries and parents. As an educator, I cannot stress how valuable a teaching tool this book is. It can be used to teach history, interculturalism, anti-racism, self-pride, reading, writing...The only thing I would change about this book would be to return some of the poems from the original publication especially "Girls Can Too". Every student I share these poems with reacts favourably, since students are the greatest critics, this is high praise indeed. 5 STARS!(Maybe in the future books will be published with e-mail addresses of the authors. This will allow the authors to know the impact they are having on their readers.)