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By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music | Carole Boston Weatherford
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A stirring picture book biography from award-winning duo Carole Boston Weatherford and Bryan Collier, about gospel composer and preacher Charles Albert Tindley, best known for the gospel hymn “We’ll Understand It Better By and By.” At a time when most African Americans were still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. His childhood was far from easy, with backbreaking hours in the fields, and no opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he heard as he worked made him long to know how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, young Charles raised himself to become a founding father of American gospel music whose hymn was the basis for the Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.” Told in lilting verse with snippets of spirituals and Tindley’s own hymns woven throughout, Carole Boston Weatherford’s lyrical words and Bryan Collier’s luminous pictures celebrate a man whose music and conviction has inspired countless lives.
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#MarchMagic Day 30: This picturebook biography #PublishedIn2020 features the life of Charles Albert Tindley, Prince Of Preachers. From the first page of this story, I knew it was an inspired, lyrical narrative that promises to take the reader to a spiritual, musical, redemptive journey of deliverance. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pc5

Honeybeebooks Lovely book! 2y
Eggs Impressive artwork 🥰🤩 2y
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I‘d never heard of Charles Albert Tindley so I enjoyed the simple rhymes, but most of all the impressive collages that illustrated this picture book biography.

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#MayCharacters Day 31: This is a #musical picturebook biography of the Father of Gospel Music. Cannot wait to read it. Review is forthcoming.

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“My life is a sermon inside a song. I‘ll sing it for you. Won‘t take long. “ Beautifully illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Carole Boston Weatherford, By and By explores the life of Charles Albert Tindley. Known as the people‘s pastor and the father of gospel music, Pastor Tindley‘s life is one of overcoming immense odds, faith and service.