The author of ten novels for young readers, Mildred D. Taylor shares pride in her racial heritage and provides historical fiction about life for black Americans in her award-winning series of novels a...
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Mildred Taylor rose to prominence as an author of children's books in the mid 1970s. With the publication of her novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) and its subsequent winning of the Newbery Me...
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Critical Essay by Jean Fritz
First are the trees behind the house…. [They] are the joy of young Cassie's life—trunks to hug, leaves that sing, branches that protect. With such a ...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis J. Fogelman
"A natural writer" is an overused expression I don't particularly like, but in speaking of Mildred Taylor it seems absolutely appropriate. M...
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Critical Essay by Anita Silvey
The dedication of [Song of the Trees]—thirteen lines which end "To my grandparents … who bridged the generations between slavery and freedom; and T...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
In a depression-era story based on an incident in the author's family history [Song of the Trees], a confrontation between a mercenary white man and a black m...
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Critical Essay by Joyce E. Arkhurst
The confrontation [between the Logan family and the white work crew in Song of the Trees] symbolizes much of the history of Black struggle—economic defensel...
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Critical Essay by Ruby Martin
Song of the Trees is so beautifully told, the prose rings poetry….
The children are charming, disarming, personal, and not too private in their love and apprec...
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Mildred D. Taylor
Mildred D. Taylor
Critical Essay by Jean Fritz
