Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred D. Taylor è una autrice americana di letteratura per bambini, prominente e molto apprezzata, che ha avuto un impatto significativo sull'industria con le sue storie potenti e commoventi. Nata a Jackson, Mississippi, nel 1943, Taylor ha trascorso la maggior parte della sua infanzia a Toledo, Ohio. Tuttavia, le sue esperienze nel Profondo Sud hanno avuto una profonda influenza sulla sua scrittura, plasmando la sua prospettiva e fornendole una vasta gamma di materiale da cui attingere. La scrittura di Taylor spesso esplora le lotte affrontate dalle famiglie afroamericane nel Profondo Sud, attingendo dalle storie che ha ascoltato mentre cresceva. Questi aneddoti, molti dei quali risalgono ai tempi della schiavitù e del post-schiavitù, si sono radicati profondamente nella mente di Taylor e hanno ispirato molte delle sue opere più famose.

Il libro più famoso di Taylor, "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", è stato pubblicato nel 1977 e ha vinto la Medaglia Newbery. Questo libro è il volume medio della serie Logans, che include altri titoli come "La Terra", "Il Canto degli Alberi", "Lascia che il cerchio non si spezzi" e "La Strada per Memphis". Come molte delle opere di Taylor, questi libri attingono dalle storie e dalle esperienze della sua famiglia, dando vita alle lotte e alle difficoltà affrontate dalle famiglie afroamericane nel Profondo Sud. La scrittura di Taylor è fortemente radicata nella storia, offrendo un resoconto potente e commovente della vita durante i periodi di grave crisi economica e agitazione sociale.

Nel corso della sua carriera, Taylor è diventata una delle voci più prominenti e celebrate della letteratura per bambini. Il suo lavoro è stato ampiamente riconosciuto per la sua potente e commovente esplorazione dell'esperienza afroamericana nel Profondo Sud, e ha vinto numerosi premi per i suoi contributi al campo. Nel 2003, a Taylor è stato assegnato il premio inaugurale NSK Neustadt per la letteratura per bambini, in riconoscimento dei suoi eccezionali contributi al genere. Oggi, l'eredità di Taylor continua e il suo lavoro continua a ispirare e catturare i lettori di tutte le età, offrendo un resoconto potente e commovente della vita nel Profondo Sud durante alcuni dei momenti più difficili della storia americana.
Logan Family Saga Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
2 Song of the Trees 1975
3 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
4 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
5 Let the Circle Be Unbroken 1981
6 The Friendship 1987
7 The Gold Cadillac 1987
8 Mississippi Bridge 1990
9 The Road to Memphis 1992
10 The Well 1995
11 The Land 2001
12 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come 2020
Logan Family Saga Series in Chronological Order
# Titolo Anno
1 The Land 2001
2 The Well 1995
3 Song of the Trees 1975
4 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
5 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
6 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
7 Mississippi Bridge 1990
8 Let the Circle Be Unbroken 1981
9 The Friendship 1987
10 The Road to Memphis 1992
11 The Gold Cadillac 1987
12 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come 2020
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 The Friendship And Other Stories 1991
Jerry Pinkney as Illustrator
# Titolo Anno
1 Tales from Africa 0
2 Tales from Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green) 0
3 The Ugly Duckling 1843
4 The Ugly Duckling (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1843
5 The Little Match Girl (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1845
6 The Little Match Girl 1845
7 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1894
8 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 1894
9 Early Autumn ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1927
10 The Education of Henry Adams 1918
11 The Flowering of New England (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1936
12 Lolita (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1955
13 The Flowering of New England 1936
14 Rabbit, Run (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1960
15 Lolita 1955
16 Rabbit, Run 1960
17 The Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 1964
18 The Adventures of Spider 1964
19 The Year Around Book (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1965
20 This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adeline McCall) 1965
21 The Traveling Frog (By: Jerry Pinkney, V. M. Garshin) 1966
22 This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School 1965
23 A Book of Shapes & Sizes (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1966
24 The Traveling Frog 1966
25 The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India (By: Jerry Pinkney, John W. Spellman) 1967
26 A Book of Shapes & Sizes 1966
27 Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1967
28 The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India 1967
29 The Clock Museum (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ken. Sobol) 1967
30 Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep 1967
31 The Clock Museum 1967
32 Folktales and Fairytales of Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green) 1967
33 Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ralph Alan Dale) 1968
34 Folktales and Fairytales of Africa 1967
35 Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets 1968
36 Kostas the Rooster (By: Jerry Pinkney, Traudl) 1968
37 Kostas the Rooster 1968
38 The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1969
39 Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thelma. Shaw) 1969
40 Babushka and the Pig (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Trofimuk) 1969
41 Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. 1969
42 The Porcupine and the Tiger (By: Jerry Pinkney, Fern Powell) 1970
43 Babushka and the Pig 1969
44 The Porcupine and the Tiger 1970
45 Cora Annett's Homerhenry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cora Annett) 1970
46 The King's Ditch (By: Jerry Pinkney, Francine Jacobs) 1971
47 Cora Annett's Homerhenry 1970
48 The Planet of Junior Brown (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1971
49 The King's Ditch 1971
50 The Planet of Junior Brown 1971
51 Femi and Old Grandaddie (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson) 1972
52 Femi and Old Grandaddie 1972
53 JD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Mari Evans) 1973
54 JD 1973
55 Kasho and the Twin Flutes. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson) 1973
56 Prince Littlefoot (By: Jerry Pinkney, Berniece Freschet) 1973
57 Kasho and the Twin Flutes. 1973
58 Mickey and Minny ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1973
59 Prince Littlefoot 1973
60 The Great Minu ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1974
61 Roots of Time (By: Jerry Pinkney, Elliott P. Skinner) 1974
62 Roots of Time 1974
63 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
64 Wuthering Heights ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
65 Song of the Trees 1975
66 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
67 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
68 Yagua Days (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cruz Martel) 1976
69 Gulliver's Travels (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1977
70 Yagua Days 1976
71 Selected plays (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1977
72 The Winthrop Covenant 1976
73 Gulliver's Travels 1977
74 Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema) 1978
75 Selected plays 1977
76 History of Tom Jones a Founding ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1978
77 Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles 1978
78 Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (By: Jerry Pinkney, Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little) 1979
79 Tonweya and the Eagles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Rosebud Yellow Robe) 1979
80 Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir 1979
81 These Thirteen ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1979
82 More Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 1980
83 Tonweya and the Eagles 1979
84 Count on Your Fingers African Style (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1980
85 More Adventures of Spider 1980
86 The Covenant ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1980
87 Jahdu (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1980
88 Count on Your Fingers African Style 1980
89 Rabbit Redux ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1981
90 Jahdu 1980
91 Monster Myths of Ancient Greece (By: Jerry Pinkney, William A. Wise) 1981
92 Apples On A Stick (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Michels, Bettye White) 1983
93 Monster Myths of Ancient Greece 1981
94 The Patchwork Quilt (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy) 1985
95 Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy White Carlstrom) 1987
96 Apples On A Stick 1983
97 Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea (By: National Geographic Society, Jerry Pinkney, Jane Heath Buxton) 1987
98 The Patchwork Quilt 1985
99 Half a Moon and One Whole Star 1986
100 Mirandy and Brother Wind (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 1988
101 Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna 1987
102 The Green Lion of Zion Street (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julia Fields) 1988
103 More Tales of Uncle Remus (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1988
104 Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea 1987
105 Mirandy and Brother Wind 1988
106 Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema) 1989
107 The Talking Eggs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci) 1989
108 The Green Lion of Zion Street 1988
109 Turtle in July (By: Jerry Pinkney, Marilyn Singer) 1989
110 More Tales of Uncle Remus 1988
111 Pretend You're a Cat (By: Jerry Pinkney, Jean Marzollo) 1990
112 Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion 1989
113 The Talking Eggs 1989
114 The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket (By: Jerry Pinkney, Sonia Levitin) 1991
115 Turtle in July 1989
116 Their Eyes Were Watching God ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1991
117 Home Place 1990
118 David's Songs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Colin Eisler) 1992
119 Pretend You're a Cat 1990
120 Back Home (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 1992
121 Drylongso (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1992
122 In for Winter, Out for Spring 1991
123 The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket 1991
124 A Starlit Somersault Downhill (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard) 1993
125 I Want to Be (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thylias Moss) 1993
126 New Shoes for Silvia (By: Jerry Pinkney, Johanna Hurwitz) 1993
127 David's Songs 1992
128 Back Home 1992
129 The Sunday Outing (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 1994
130 John Henry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1994
131 Drylongso 1992
132 The Jungle Book ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1995
133 A Starlit Somersault Downhill 1993
134 Tanya's Reunion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy) 1995
135 I Want to Be 1993
136 Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (By: Jerry Pinkney, Alan Schroeder) 1996
137 New Shoes for Silvia 1993
138 Sam and the Tigers (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1996
139 The Sunday Outing 1994
140 John Henry 1994
141 The Hired Hand (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci) 1997
142 Black Cowboy, Wild Horses (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1998
143 Journeys with Elijah (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Diamond Goldin) 1999
144 Tanya's Reunion 1995
145 Aesop's Fables (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2000
146 Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman 1996
147 Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 2000
148 Sam and the Tigers 1996
149 The Hired Hand 1997
150 Goin' Someplace Special (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 2001
151 Black Cowboy, Wild Horses 1998
152 Noah's Ark (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2002
153 Journeys with Elijah 1999
154 The Nightingale (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2002
155 Aesop's Fables 2000
156 The Old African (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 2005
157 Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 2005
158 Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream 2000
159 Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Grifalconi) 2007
160 Goin' Someplace Special 2001
161 Noah's Ark 2002
162 The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 2007
163 The Nightingale 2002
164 Sweethearts of Rhythm (By: Marilyn Nelson) 2009
165 A Starlit Snowfall (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard) 2011
166 God Bless the Child 2003
167 The First Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 2012
168 The Old African 2005
169 The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 2012
170 Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD 2005
171 Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me 2007
172 In Plain Sight (By: Jerry Pinkney, Richard Jackson) 2016
173 The Christmas Boot (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2016
174 The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll 2007
175 The Moon Over Star 2008
176 A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barry Wittenstein) 2018
177 Sweethearts of Rhythm 2009
178 A Home in the Barn (By: Margaret Wise Brown, Jerry Pinkney) 2018
179 A Starlit Snowfall 2011
180 The Little Mermaid (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2020
181 A Walk in the Woods (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nikki Grimes) 2023
182 The First Adventures of Spider 2012
183 The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales 2012
184 In Plain Sight 2016
185 The Christmas Boot 2016
186 A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation 2018
187 A Home in the Barn 2018
188 Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2019
189 The Little Mermaid 2020
190 A Walk in the Woods 2023