Read And Rise: (Foreword by Maya Angelou)

By Sandra L. Pinkney

Scholastic and the National Urban League come together with Myles and Sandra Pinkney to inspire African-American children to realize their dreams and achieve their goals through reading. In a chair turning pages sitting in the cockpit flying high in the sky READ AND RISE Through reading, children can be inspired to become almost anything: pilot, teacher, firefighter, doctor, chef, astronaut. READ AND RISE relays this message through vivid photographs and poetic words that encourage children to READ AND RISE.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439309298
• ISBN13: 9780439309295
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cartwheel Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

City Kids Need to Read!!!

Working with inner city children I have even heard adults say "Black kids don't read". What absurdity! If people introduced children to books they would like it even more, and yes there ARE Black city kids who read, but you and I both know there can and should be a lot more who do.