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Floyd Cooper is the author of Cumbayah, Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion, A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream, Back of the Bus, Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan and , Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World.

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Cumbayah

by: Floyd Cooper
Cumbayah
"Cumbayah" is an enduring campfire song for children and a source of inspiration for adults. Though its roots are in the African-American tradition, it speaks to people of many different cultures, ages, and religious. With power and grace, Floyd Cooper depicts scenes from everyday life that emphasize how people all over the world are united in spirit. Here is an uplifting book that, with its simple lyrics, can also help teach children to read and sing. A historical note and a musical arrangement are included.

Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion

by: Heather Lang, Floyd Cooper
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion
As this year's Olympics draw near in Rio de Janeiro, athletes from around the world are training hard to overcome the competition, just as Alice Coachman did for the 1948 Olympics in London. This inspirational nonfiction book by Heather Lang is a story of perseverance and unwavering ambition that follows Coachman on her journey from rural Georgia, where she overcame adversity both as a woman and as a black athlete, to her triumph in Wembly Stadium. With her strong determination and innate athletic talent, Alice raced her way to the top of the track and field world and, leaping over all hurdles in her path, went on to become the first African American woman to take home the gold medal. This amazing journey is complemented by Floyd Cooper's pastel illustrations that serve to represent Coachman's incredible struggles.

School Library Journal says: ?Lang brings her subject's early years to life through small details… Cooper's pastels keep to a brown, grainy palette, recalling the Georgia dirt on which the track star ran as a child.”

A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream

by: Kristy Dempsey, Floyd Cooper
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream
Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the best ballet schools and of dancing starring roles on stage. But in Harlem in the 1950s, dreams don't always come true - they take a lot of work and a lot of hope. And sometimes hope is hard to come by. But the first African-American prima ballerina, Janet Collins, did make her dreams come true. And those dreams inspired ballerinas everywhere, showing them that the color of their skin couldn't stop them from becoming a star.

Back of the Bus

by: Aaron Reynolds, Floyd Cooper
Back of the Bus
From the back of the bus, an African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan

by: Floyd Cooper, Floyd Cooper
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan
What was Michael Jordan like as a boy? You might be surprised that the greatest professional basketball player ever wasn't even the best player in his own family!

Michael Jordan was once just an ordinary little boy growing up in a North Carolina suburb, trying to keep up with his older brother Larry. Michael was always good at sports, but it seemed like Larry was always going to be bigger, quicker, and luckier. But Michael never gave up, and his practicing began to pay off. Then one summer day during a backyard game of one-on-one, Larry Jordan's "little" brother took him--and the whole family--by surprise!

Based on actual events, this story of a friendly sibling rivalry is enhanced by Floyd Cooper's stunning two-tone art. Jump! even features a gate-fold depicting Michael Jordan's trademark leap that will send young readers soaring.

Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

by: James Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Floyd Cooper
Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
Between about 1500 and 1850, millions of Africans were captured and transported across the Atlantic in one of the most tragic ordeals in human history. In this objective and profoundly moving book, Haskins and Benson open with discussions of slavery thoughout history and of Europe and Africa at the time the African slave trade began, then closely examine every aspect of the Middle Passage. Included are sections on capturing the slaves, the march to the coast, the selection of slaves for purchase, conditions on slave ships, and slave revolts aboard ship. Illuminated with historic prints, photographs, and Floyd Cooper's compelling paintings. Timeline, bibliography, map, and index included.
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