Book jacket image for Go Tell It by Quartez Harris

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

9780316483933

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Go Tell It

Go Tell It is an inspiring look at James Baldwin, one of America’s most important writers.

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Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer is exceptional, a master class of a picture book biography overflowing with energy-infused words and pictures. Quartez Harris is a compelling storyteller, summarizing Baldwin’s early life in evocative scenes, especially his struggles with his fury-filled preacher stepfather. Harris describes, for instance, how Baldwin wrote Go Tell…

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