Name: As Fast as Words Could fly
SKU: 53641735
Price: 338.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Eric Velasquez
ISBN: 9781620148594

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pamela Tuck

Illustrated by

Eric Velasquez

Publisher

Lee & Low Books

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

26.2x21.1x0.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781620148594

Synopsis "As Fast as Words Could fly "

New Voices Award, Lee & Low Books Teacher's Choices, International Literacy Association (ILA) Diverse and Impressive Children's Books of 2013, International Literacy Association (ILA) Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones Magazine Story Telling World Award, Storytelling MagazineThe story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a "whites-only" high school.Now in paperback!Young Mason Steele takes pride in turning his father's excited ramblings about the latest civil rights incidents into handwritten business letters. One day Pa comes home with a gift from his civil rights group: a typewriter. Thrilled with the present, Mason spends all his spare time teaching himself to type. Soon he knows where every letter on the keyboard is located. When the civil rights group wins a school desegregation case, Mason learns that now he will be attending a formerly all-white high school. Despite his fears and injustice from the students and faculty, Mason perseveres. He does well in school-especially in his typing class. And when he competes in the county typing tournament, Mason decides to take a stand, using his skills to triumph over prejudice and break racial barriers. Winner of Lee & Low's New Voices Award, As Fast As Words Could Fly is an inspiring testament to the power of hard work, determination, and belief in yourself to overcome life's challenges.

Eric Velasquez

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Eric Velásquez is an American author and illustrator of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, born in New York and raised in Spanish Harlem. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1983. Before focusing on illustrated books, he worked on cover design and interior illustrations for various publications

His first illustrated book was "The Piano Man" (1998), which earned him the John Steptoe New Talent Award in 1999. In 2011, he received the Pura Belpré Award for "Grandma's Gift". Another notable work is "Looking for Bongo" (2016), a children's story that follows a boy in search of his lost toy. Velásquez has been recognized for his ability to capture the essence of the Afro-Latino experience in the United States through his detailed and expressive illustrations.

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