Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred D. Taylor es una destacada autora estadounidense de literatura infantil, que ha tenido un impacto significativo en la industria con sus historias poderosas y conmovedoras. Nacida en Jackson, Mississippi en 1943, Taylor pasó la mayor parte de su infancia en Toledo, Ohio. Sin embargo, sus experiencias en el Sur profundo tuvieron un profundo impacto en su escritura, moldeando su perspectiva y brindándole una riqueza de material del cual inspirarse. El trabajo de Taylor a menudo explora las luchas enfrentadas por las familias afroamericanas en el Sur profundo, basándose en historias que escuchó mientras crecía. Estas anécdotas, muchas de las cuales ocurrieron durante la esclavitud y la pos-esclavitud, quedaron profundamente arraigadas en la mente de Taylor y sirvieron de inspiración para muchas de sus obras más famosas.

El libro más famoso de Taylor, "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," fue publicado en 1977 y ganó la Medalla Newbery. Este libro es el segundo libro de la serie Logans, que incluye otros títulos como "The Land," "Song of the Trees," "Let the Circle Be Unbroken," y "The Road to Memphis." Estos libros, al igual que gran parte del trabajo de Taylor, se basan en las historias y experiencias de su familia, dando vida a las luchas y dificultades enfrentadas por las familias afroamericanas en el Sur profundo. La escritura de Taylor está profundamente arraigada en la historia, ofreciendo un relato poderoso y conmovedor de la vida durante épocas de gran crisis económica y convulsión social.

A lo largo de su carrera, Taylor se ha convertido en una de las voces más prominentes y celebradas en la literatura infantil. Su trabajo ha sido ampliamente reconocido por su exploración poderosa y conmovedora de la experiencia afroamericana en el Sur profundo, y ha ganado numerosos premios por sus contribuciones al campo. En 2003, Taylor recibió el primer Premio NSK Neustadt de Literatura Infantil, en reconocimiento a sus destacadas contribuciones al género. Hoy en día, el legado de Taylor perdura y su obra continúa inspirando y cautivando a lectores de todas las edades, ofreciendo un relato poderoso y conmovedor de la vida en el Sur profundo durante algunos de los momentos más desafiantes en la historia estadounidense.
Logan Family Saga Books
# Título Año
1 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
2 Song of the Trees 1975
3 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
4 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
5 Let the Circle Be Unbroken 1981
6 The Friendship 1987
7 The Gold Cadillac 1987
8 Mississippi Bridge 1990
9 The Road to Memphis 1992
10 The Well 1995
11 The Land 2001
12 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come 2020
Logan Family Saga Series in Chronological Order
# Título Año
1 The Land 2001
2 The Well 1995
3 Song of the Trees 1975
4 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
5 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
6 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
7 Mississippi Bridge 1990
8 Let the Circle Be Unbroken 1981
9 The Friendship 1987
10 The Road to Memphis 1992
11 The Gold Cadillac 1987
12 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come 2020
Logan Family Saga Books in Chronological Order
# Título Año
1 The Land 2001
2 The Well 1995
3 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
4 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
5 Mississippi Bridge 1990
6 Let the Circle Be Unbroken 1981
7 The Friendship 1987
8 The Road to Memphis 1992
9 The Gold Cadillac 1987
10 All the Days Past, All the Days to Come 2020
Colecciones
# Título Año
1 The Friendship And Other Stories 1991
Jerry Pinkney as Illustrator
# Título Año
1 Tales from Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green) 0
2 Tales from Africa 0
3 The Ugly Duckling 1843
4 The Ugly Duckling (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1843
5 The Little Match Girl (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1845
6 The Little Match Girl 1845
7 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 1894
8 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1894
9 The Education of Henry Adams 1918
10 Early Autumn ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1927
11 The Flowering of New England (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1936
12 Lolita (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1955
13 The Flowering of New England 1936
14 Lolita 1955
15 Rabbit, Run (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1960
16 Rabbit, Run 1960
17 The Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 1964
18 The Year Around Book (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1965
19 The Adventures of Spider 1964
20 This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adeline McCall) 1965
21 This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School 1965
22 The Traveling Frog (By: Jerry Pinkney, V. M. Garshin) 1966
23 A Book of Shapes & Sizes (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1966
24 The Traveling Frog 1966
25 A Book of Shapes & Sizes 1966
26 The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India (By: Jerry Pinkney, John W. Spellman) 1967
27 The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India 1967
28 Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1967
29 The Clock Museum (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ken. Sobol) 1967
30 Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep 1967
31 Folktales and Fairytales of Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green) 1967
32 The Clock Museum 1967
33 Folktales and Fairytales of Africa 1967
34 Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ralph Alan Dale) 1968
35 Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets 1968
36 Kostas the Rooster (By: Jerry Pinkney, Traudl) 1968
37 Kostas the Rooster 1968
38 The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1969
39 Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thelma. Shaw) 1969
40 Babushka and the Pig (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Trofimuk) 1969
41 Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. 1969
42 The Porcupine and the Tiger (By: Jerry Pinkney, Fern Powell) 1970
43 Babushka and the Pig 1969
44 Cora Annett's Homerhenry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cora Annett) 1970
45 The Porcupine and the Tiger 1970
46 Cora Annett's Homerhenry 1970
47 The King's Ditch (By: Jerry Pinkney, Francine Jacobs) 1971
48 The Planet of Junior Brown (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1971
49 The King's Ditch 1971
50 Femi and Old Grandaddie (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson) 1972
51 The Planet of Junior Brown 1971
52 JD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Mari Evans) 1973
53 Femi and Old Grandaddie 1972
54 JD 1973
55 Kasho and the Twin Flutes. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson) 1973
56 Kasho and the Twin Flutes. 1973
57 Prince Littlefoot (By: Jerry Pinkney, Berniece Freschet) 1973
58 Prince Littlefoot 1973
59 Mickey and Minny ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1973
60 The Great Minu ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1974
61 Roots of Time (By: Jerry Pinkney, Elliott P. Skinner) 1974
62 Roots of Time 1974
63 Song of the Trees (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
64 Song of the Trees 1975
65 Wuthering Heights ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
66 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (With: Jerry Pinkney) 1975
67 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1975
68 Yagua Days (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cruz Martel) 1976
69 Yagua Days 1976
70 Gulliver's Travels (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1977
71 The Winthrop Covenant 1976
72 Selected plays (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1977
73 Gulliver's Travels 1977
74 Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema) 1978
75 History of Tom Jones a Founding ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1978
76 Selected plays 1977
77 Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (By: Jerry Pinkney, Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little) 1979
78 Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles 1978
79 Tonweya and the Eagles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Rosebud Yellow Robe) 1979
80 Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir 1979
81 These Thirteen ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1979
82 Tonweya and the Eagles 1979
83 More Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 1980
84 Count on Your Fingers African Style (By: Jerry Pinkney) 1980
85 The Covenant ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1980
86 More Adventures of Spider 1980
87 Count on Your Fingers African Style 1980
88 Jahdu (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1980
89 Rabbit Redux ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1981
90 Jahdu 1980
91 Monster Myths of Ancient Greece (By: Jerry Pinkney, William A. Wise) 1981
92 Apples On A Stick (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Michels, Bettye White) 1983
93 The Patchwork Quilt (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy) 1985
94 Monster Myths of Ancient Greece 1981
95 Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy White Carlstrom) 1987
96 Apples On A Stick 1983
97 Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea (By: National Geographic Society, Jerry Pinkney, Jane Heath Buxton) 1987
98 The Patchwork Quilt 1985
99 Mirandy and Brother Wind (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 1988
100 Half a Moon and One Whole Star 1986
101 The Green Lion of Zion Street (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julia Fields) 1988
102 Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna 1987
103 More Tales of Uncle Remus (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1988
104 Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea 1987
105 Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema) 1989
106 Mirandy and Brother Wind 1988
107 The Talking Eggs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci) 1989
108 The Green Lion of Zion Street 1988
109 Turtle in July (By: Jerry Pinkney, Marilyn Singer) 1989
110 More Tales of Uncle Remus 1988
111 Pretend You're a Cat (By: Jerry Pinkney, Jean Marzollo) 1990
112 Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion 1989
113 The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket (By: Jerry Pinkney, Sonia Levitin) 1991
114 The Talking Eggs 1989
115 Turtle in July 1989
116 Their Eyes Were Watching God ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1991
117 David's Songs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Colin Eisler) 1992
118 Home Place 1990
119 Back Home (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 1992
120 Pretend You're a Cat 1990
121 In for Winter, Out for Spring 1991
122 Drylongso (By: Jerry Pinkney, Virginia Hamilton) 1992
123 The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket 1991
124 A Starlit Somersault Downhill (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard) 1993
125 I Want to Be (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thylias Moss) 1993
126 David's Songs 1992
127 New Shoes for Silvia (By: Jerry Pinkney, Johanna Hurwitz) 1993
128 Back Home 1992
129 The Sunday Outing (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 1994
130 John Henry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1994
131 Drylongso 1992
132 The Jungle Book ( By: Jerry Pinkney) 1995
133 A Starlit Somersault Downhill 1993
134 Tanya's Reunion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy) 1995
135 I Want to Be 1993
136 Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (By: Jerry Pinkney, Alan Schroeder) 1996
137 New Shoes for Silvia 1993
138 Sam and the Tigers (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1996
139 The Sunday Outing 1994
140 The Hired Hand (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci) 1997
141 John Henry 1994
142 Black Cowboy, Wild Horses (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 1998
143 Tanya's Reunion 1995
144 Journeys with Elijah (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Diamond Goldin) 1999
145 Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman 1996
146 Aesop's Fables (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2000
147 Sam and the Tigers 1996
148 Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 2000
149 Goin' Someplace Special (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 2001
150 The Hired Hand 1997
151 Noah's Ark (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2002
152 Black Cowboy, Wild Horses 1998
153 The Nightingale (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2002
154 Journeys with Elijah 1999
155 Aesop's Fables 2000
156 The Old African (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester) 2005
157 Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney) 2005
158 Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream 2000
159 Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Grifalconi) 2007
160 Goin' Someplace Special 2001
161 The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack) 2007
162 Noah's Ark 2002
163 Sweethearts of Rhythm (By: Marilyn Nelson) 2009
164 The Nightingale 2002
165 A Starlit Snowfall (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard) 2011
166 God Bless the Child 2003
167 The First Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 2012
168 The Old African 2005
169 The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst) 2012
170 Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD 2005
171 In Plain Sight (By: Jerry Pinkney, Richard Jackson) 2016
172 Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me 2007
173 The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll 2007
174 The Christmas Boot (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2016
175 The Moon Over Star 2008
176 A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barry Wittenstein) 2018
177 A Home in the Barn (By: Margaret Wise Brown, Jerry Pinkney) 2018
178 Sweethearts of Rhythm 2009
179 A Starlit Snowfall 2011
180 The Little Mermaid (By: Jerry Pinkney) 2020
181 The First Adventures of Spider 2012
182 A Walk in the Woods (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nikki Grimes) 2023
183 The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales 2012
184 In Plain Sight 2016
185 The Christmas Boot 2016
186 A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation 2018
187 A Home in the Barn 2018
188 Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2019
189 The Little Mermaid 2020
190 A Walk in the Woods 2023