Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly.
| Publisher | Horn Book, Inc. |
| Publication | The Horn Book Magazine |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0018-5078 |
| Issues per Year | 6 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2000-05-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Leonard Jenkins |
| Author | n/a | K.T.H. |
| Reviewee | n/a | Walter Dean Myers |
Walter Dean Myers Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly; illus. by Leonard Jenkins 32 pp. HarperCollins 1/00 ISBN 0-06-027707-6 15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-06-027708-4 15.89 (Intermediate, Young Adult)
Not many writers could successfully pull off a picture-book biography of Malcolm X, but Walter Dean Myers does so with style and grace. By focussing on the dramatic turning points in his subject's short life and skillfully using direct quotes from the man himself, Myers makes the complexities of Malcolm X's story accessible without compromising its integrity. The spare and...
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