TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asim,Jabari
AU  - Lewis,E.B.
TI  - Preaching to the chickens
SN  - 9780399168567
AV  - JUV E 840.8 .L43 A75 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Nancy Paulsen Books
KW  - Lewis, John,
KW  - New, Jane "Mrs. Jane" - Memorial.
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Religious life
KW  - African American boys
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Biography
KW  - Chickens
KW  - Preaching
KW  - Rural children
KW  - Legislators
KW  - United States
KW  - African American legislators
KW  - Christian biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Juvenile biography
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - 20th century
N2  - "Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E.B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice. Celebrating ingenuity and dreaming big, this inspirational story, featuring Jabari Asim's stirring prose and E.B. Lewis's stunning, light-filled impressionistic watercolor paintings, includes an author's note about John Lewis, who grew up to be a member of the Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrator on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and is now a Georgia congressman"--
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