Kansas Reads The Learning Tree
The Girard Public Library joins the Kansas Center for the Book in Kansas Reads The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks! Selected by a committee of experienced & qualified librarians, The Learning Tree was chosen for its broad-based appeal that could encourage & sustain spirited discussion.
How it feels to be black in the white man's world...
Kansas Reads: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks is a statewide project that encourages Kansas adults to read, discuss and experience the same book. The project is sponsored by the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library and promoted by Kansas libraries, bookstores, and others from January 29 through April 30, 2007.
The Girard Public Library invites all patrons to read about Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks who was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, to Sarah Ross Parks and Andrew Jackson Parks. In addition to The Learning Tree the library has a display with several of Gordon Parks books available for checkout. We have three books by Kansas Authors: The learning Tree by Gordon Parks, Haunted Kansas by Lisa Hefner Heitz and The Virgin of the Small Plains by Nancy Pickard that will be given away on April 30, 2007, be sure to come in and put your name in the before the drawing.
Books Available for checkout are:
A Hungry Heart: a memoir, a book in which legendary American renaissance man Gordon Parks once again reflects on his amazing professional and personal accomplishments, now in the tenth decade of his extraordinary life.
Eyes with Winged Thoughts is a book containing forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offering a rare glimpse of this thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II.
Voices in the Mirror is an autobiography ans it provides a searing view of what it’s like to be black in America.
The Learning Tree is a book that brings us into the inner lives of a black family as they struggle to understand and accept--without--malice the bitter challenge of their special world...”A stormy and invigorating novel...”
Gordon Parks: no excuses is a juvenile biography.
How it feels to be black in the white man's world...
Kansas Reads: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks is a statewide project that encourages Kansas adults to read, discuss and experience the same book. The project is sponsored by the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library and promoted by Kansas libraries, bookstores, and others from January 29 through April 30, 2007.
The Girard Public Library invites all patrons to read about Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks who was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, to Sarah Ross Parks and Andrew Jackson Parks. In addition to The Learning Tree the library has a display with several of Gordon Parks books available for checkout. We have three books by Kansas Authors: The learning Tree by Gordon Parks, Haunted Kansas by Lisa Hefner Heitz and The Virgin of the Small Plains by Nancy Pickard that will be given away on April 30, 2007, be sure to come in and put your name in the before the drawing.
Books Available for checkout are:
A Hungry Heart: a memoir, a book in which legendary American renaissance man Gordon Parks once again reflects on his amazing professional and personal accomplishments, now in the tenth decade of his extraordinary life.
Eyes with Winged Thoughts is a book containing forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offering a rare glimpse of this thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II.
Voices in the Mirror is an autobiography ans it provides a searing view of what it’s like to be black in America.
The Learning Tree is a book that brings us into the inner lives of a black family as they struggle to understand and accept--without--malice the bitter challenge of their special world...”A stormy and invigorating novel...”
Gordon Parks: no excuses is a juvenile biography.
posted by Library Director at 5:09 PM
