Book 18: Harlem Stomp!, by Laban Carrick Hill

This young reader's book about the Harlem Renaissance is simply terrific, giving a compulsively readable history of the music, writers, artists and politics that surrounded the emergence of African-American artists during the period from 1900 to 1940. Presented almost in scrapbook form, the book makes excellent use of pictures, manuscripts and other visual aids to present an appealing look at some of the most influential and intelligent artists in history. People covered in the book include such luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway, and W.E.B. Dubois. It was a book that I checked out from the library, but I plan on purchasing it at some point to share with nieces, nephews, and my own future children.