Katheryn Russell-Brown
Katheryn Russell-Brown is the award-winning author of several children’s picture books, including Little Melba and Her Big Trombone and She Was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm. When not writing picture books, Russell-Brown is a professor of law, teaching and researching on issues of race and crime and the sociology of law. Learn more at krbrown.net.
Books
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La pequeña Melba y su gran trombón
(Little Melba and Her Big Trombone)By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
La pequeña Melba y su gran trombón
(Little Melba and Her Big Trombone)By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank MorrisonView DetailsRecipient of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor award, a biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.
She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley ChisholmBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley ChisholmBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric VelasquezView Details
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank MorrisonView DetailsA biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women, of any race, played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.
