You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce, Carmella Van Vleet
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You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce

Author: Carmella Van Vleet, Chiquita Mullins Lee

Narrator: Preston Butler, III

Unabridged: 0 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/31/2023

Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American

Synopsis

In YOU GOTTA MEET MR. PIERCE, young readers step back in time to visit with Pierce in his Columbus, Ohio barbershop, where, in between cutting customers’ hair, he crafted thousands of figures in wood. They’ll discover how this son of a former enslaved man taught himself to carve, and then went on to become one of the first famous black folk artists, gaining worldwide fame at the age of 81. Filled with warm and inspiring dialogue taken directly from Pierce’s past interviews, this text is especially suited to audio.

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