Bound To Stay Bound

Booklist - 10/15/2024 Cicely Tyson, the iconic actress who played iconic Black characters on stage and screen from the 1950s on, gave singular individuality to everyone from Miss Jane Pittman and Harriet Tubman to Binta Kinte, the mother of Kunta Kinte on TV's Roots. As Watson writes in this series of narrative poems, Tyson was a bright light / shining in a world that was sometimes dark, / sometimes unjust. But before Tyson dreamed of being an actress, she, a child of Caribbean immigrants, pondered and practiced a number of vocations as she grew up in New York City. For children who may not yet know about this elegant woman (who died only recently, at age 96), her childhood and young-adult interests will draw them in. Tyson went from singing and playing piano to styling hair and modeling. As Watson proceeds carefully from the girl to the woman, the award winner to the activist, she casts a light on following your dreams. Shine's illustrations emphasize Tyson's long, elegant frame and stylish fashion sense, drawing the eye with cut-paper collages. A memorial package. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.