Even so, in one sense, the stories I read betrayed me.
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library reading-no, devouring-book after book after book. it seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. "The written word has always held a special fascination for me.
She is the author of many books for adults and children, including the Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Meet Danitra Brown, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Aneesa Lee and the Weaver's Gift, illustrated by Ashley Bryan, and is it far to Zanzibar?, illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Kilimanjaro to the spice island of Zanzibar and brought away scores of stories about the unforgettable people and places she had visited, which later found their way into her poems. In 1974, a research grant from the Ford Foundation enabled Nikki Grimes to spend a year doing linguistic and cultural research in Tanzania, East Africa.
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