Hush, Little Baby
by Brian Pinkney
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An illustrated version of the traditional folk song in which a father promises the world to his restless baby daughter.Tags
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A father sings his children a song while their mother is gone. Set in the early 1900s.
'Hush, Little Baby" is a common lullaby or nursing rhymes.
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Brian Pinkney, author and illustrator, was born August 28, 1961. He has received the Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations, three Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, and in 1997, he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his book, The Adventures of Sparrowboy. He has also won two Caldecott Honor awards for his illustrations with the books: show more The Faithful Friend, by Robert D. San Souci, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Pinkney primarily uses the scratchboard illustrative technique with most of his books. Pinkney lives with his wife, Andrea, and their children in Brooklyn, New York. show less
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- Children's Books, Picture Books, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 782.4215 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal music [formerly: Dramatic music and production of musical drama] Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Kinds of secular songs
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- PZ8.3 .P5586829 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English
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