Book Detail

Walking the Log

Publication Information
Author:  Nickens, Bessie Illustrator:  Nickens, Bessie
Title:  Walking the Log Date:  1994
Publisher:  Rizzoli City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8448-1794-6 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography, nonfiction, memoirs/reminiscences

HSE Descriptor(s):   

Summary:
The author paints scenes and reminisces about her childhood in the turn of the century South. The books contains information about daily life, work (especially picking cotton), childhood games, family values, and the author's life long interest in art. There is a glossary of terms.

Teaching Ideas:
What a wonderful introduction to family history. The readers get two stories in one. Not only does the author share her childhood through paintings and text, but she tells how she developed as an artist. Learners may want to make their own books using family photographs. Because the text reads like an oral history, students might like to develop a list of the characteristics that make it sound like storytelling. Compare it with Miss Rumphius. Mary Lyon's Starting Home provides information about primitive art that might be useful.

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Art and Photography > art > folk art
bullet Art and Photography > art > painting
bullet Social Studies > anthropology > daily life
bullet Ethnic Groups > African-American
bullet Family > family history
bullet Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > Southern United States
bullet Geography > regionalisms
bullet History > time period > 20th Century
bullet Work > historical


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