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Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. This book received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1989. This book also received the Caldecott Medal the same year. This is a super cute book about a cake-walk competition with it's roots based in Afro-American culture. The story is about a girl named Mirandy who is determined to catch Brother Wind, and for him to be her partner at the junior cake-walk. She tries multiple attempts, before catching him in the end. She's prepared to dance with him at the dance, but says she's going to win with one of the most clumsiest boys in town to prove a point. In the end, the boy and Mirandy dance beautifully, and to win the cake walk by dancing with the wind. This is a super cute book, and would read it in my future classroom. The appropriate age group for this book would be second grade to sixth grade. The way I would use this book in my classroom would be for the students to focus on the setting based on Jerry Pinkney's beautiful illustrations, and details from the text.
I read Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. This book received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1989. This book also received the Caldecott Medal the same year. This is a super cute book about a cake-walk competition with it's roots based in Afro-American culture. The story is about a girl named Mirandy who is determined to catch Brother Wind, and for him to be her partner at the junior cake-walk. She tries multiple attempts, before catching him in the end. She's prepared to dance with him at the dance, but says she's going to win with one of the most clumsiest boys in town to prove a point. In the end, the boy and Mirandy dance beautifully, and to win the cake walk by dancing with the wind. This is a super cute book, and would read it in my future classroom. The appropriate age group for this book would be second grade to sixth grade. The way I would use this book in my classroom would be for the students to focus on the setting based on Jerry Pinkney's beautiful illustrations, and details from the text.
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