roll of thunder hear my cry 40th anniversary special edition

Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children’s Literature.

Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal and Germany’s Buxtehude Bulle Award (both for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Taylor is the author of nine books including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, The Well and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. “The ROLL OF THUNDER series resonates so deeply with me and I’m very proud to help introduce this saga to a new generation of readers.” “I’m so thrilled to have the opportunity to create new covers for this powerful series by Mildred Taylor,” says Kadir Nelson. I consider my books a legacy to my family, and I believe all those who shared the stories and who lived the history would be as proud as I of the 40th anniversary of ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY, a book begun with a story told around the dining room table.”

I have woven all those stories and all that history into ten books, including the book I am now writing, LOGAN, the concluding book of the Logan family saga. From the time I was a child, I heard family stories and family history. Taylor says, “ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY was created from a story my father and my uncle told me while we sat at the dining room table. The final book in the Logan family saga will be released by Viking in 2017. The hardcover anniversary rejacketed edition will publish January 5,Ģ016 with the complete backlist to follow in paperback in April. These titles – Let the Circle be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, Mississippi Bridge, Song of the Trees, The Friendship, The Land, The Well, The Gold Cadillac. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY was first published in January 1976, and was followed by eight additional novels to form the Logan family saga. TAYLOR’S ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY (CELEBRATES 40th ANNIVERSARY IN 2016)

Roll of thunder hear my cry 40th anniversary special edition