"In collaborating with the fiercely imaginative visual artist Kara Walker, Kincaid has transposed this mode of thinking into an amalgam of erudition, discourse, storytelling and picture book art. A simple child’s garden of ABCs their “encyclopedia” is not. Kincaid’s adult base, too, will gravitate toward it . . . Cunning and often anthropomorphic, the alphabet book’s imagery interpolates child-driven versions of [Walker's] acidly sardonic shadow art with soft-edged, watercolor-drenched vignettes that play hide-and-seek with the letters they’re called on to represent . . . Kincaid and Walker are unafraid to spin the world differently and make it matter in new ways." —Celia McGee, The New York Times Book Review
A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidden history of
the plant world.
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the
plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling,
multilayered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children-inventive, surprising,
and telling-about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
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the plant world.
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the
plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling,
multilayered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children-inventive, surprising,
and telling-about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidden history of
the plant world.
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the
plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling,
multilayered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children-inventive, surprising,
and telling-about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
the plant world.
In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the
plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.
Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling,
multilayered watercolors.
There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children-inventive, surprising,
and telling-about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
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BN ID: | 2940192502884 |
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Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
Publication date: | 10/01/2024 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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