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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
 

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

by Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Visionary full-color artwork accompanies a stirring poem--by the famed inaugural poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--that celebrates courage, strength, and fearlessness. All ages. (read review)

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Lucia H
  • Rated 5 stars

“I bought this book as a way to teach my students how art and literature compliment each other.”

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Artemis_98
  • Rated 2 stars

“Life might not frighten you, but this book will!
This is one of those children's picture books that is best considered an art-y book for adults to put on their coffee tables, or such.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's illustrations are quite amazing--but they are dark and morbid and scary, and I don't they think they are appropriate for the age group that storybooks like this usually are targeted towards.
Maybe an older child, especially one interested in art, might enjoy it.
Maya...”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.071429 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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