Ellington Was Not a Street Auto Ang Diterlizzi Suddenly trees are sprouting

Suddenly trees are sprouting

and misshapen things into her art

and the importance of community

they recycle it into something useful again

Kids will love the accessible rhyming text

Ellington Was Not a Street Auto Ang Diterlizzi Suddenly trees are sproutingFeaturing luminous art by Coretta Scott King Awardwinning illustrator Kadir Nelson, this reflective picture book by poet Ntozake Shange looks back at the great Black thinkers and innovators who visited her fathers house. A close knit group of Black innovators formed their own community in the early to mid twentieth century. These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend,