ROLL of THUNDER HEAR MY CRY; Introduction by Jacqueline Woodson / Illustration by Kadir Nelson by Taylor, Mildred D - 2016

New York, N.Y.: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40th Anniversary Edition. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Kadir Nelson. 8vo, blue boards with copper lettering on spine, Newberry Gold Medal seal on front cover, full color frontispiece portrait of family by Kadir Nelson, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) art by Nelson, photographic montage as endpapers, 276 pages + [2:blanks], [4] Mildred D. Taylor's Family Album, [2] About the Author. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is a 1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor set in Mississippi during the Jim Crow and Depression era. It is a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. The novel won the 1977 Newbery Medal. It is followed by two more sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken , The Road to Memphis (1990), and a prequel to the Logan family saga, The Land (2001).<br/> <br/> EXCEPTIONAL NARRATIVE IN COMPARABLE CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean with sharp and bright dust jacket.