Leo T. reviewed The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books) on + 1775 more book reviews
This is a homage to the founder of a bookstore stocking Black-oriented publications in 1930's Harlem. There are detailed illustrations and a bibliography.
This copy did not circulate in nearly three years on the shelves. Unlike when I was nine and ten years old (1956-1957) and traveled on the bus to Boyle Hts. to meet up with a friend. The Anglo, Negro, y Chino kids we would pal around with for a bit have been run off since the Immigration Act of 1965--virtually all the kids are Latino....
This copy did not circulate in nearly three years on the shelves. Unlike when I was nine and ten years old (1956-1957) and traveled on the bus to Boyle Hts. to meet up with a friend. The Anglo, Negro, y Chino kids we would pal around with for a bit have been run off since the Immigration Act of 1965--virtually all the kids are Latino....
