1. Bronzeville Boys and Girls 2. Knockin' On Wood 3. KittyKam 38
4. MOSES: When Harriet Tubman
Led Her People to Freedom
3rd Sat at 4:30 PM : BCAT 35/68 4:30 PM Sat, Feb 16 BCAT http://www.bcat.tv ch 2
BrooklynBlowback is a cable access TV show for children & YA of all ages produced live-to-tape in a ministudio in Brooklyn, NY. We narrate picture books, songs, fairy tales, biographies, and add music, puppets, pictures and a surveillance KittyKam mini-episode. We've reached more than 500,000 homes every month since August 2002! New episodes air on the 3rd Saturday of every month at 4:30 PM on BCAT Ch. 35/68 & streams on http://www.bcat.tv Ch 2. The world in a snowball. We Get Naked with the Truth.
An abandoned Fireboat was a hero during the rescue mission from 9/11. Beautifully illustrated and imaginative true story by Maira Kalman. CHeck Out Maira's NYTimes blog at http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com
3. KittyKam 38:
1. Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks; Ills by Faith Ringgold. Summary: In 1956, Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks created a collection of poems that celebrated the joy, beauty, imagination, and freedom of childhood. She reminded us that whether we live in the Bronzeville section of Chicago or any other neighborhood, childhood is universal in its richness of emotions and experiences.
Brooklyn Blowback Credits:
Executive Producer/Narrator: David Kay
Music Director/Musician: Tom Siler (aka Mr. Yesterday)
4. MOSES: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom; by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ills by Kadir Nelson . Summary: Tubman's religious faith drives this handsome poetic account of her escape to freedom and her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The story begins with Harriet addressing God on a summer night as she is about to be sold south from the Maryland plantation where she and her husband live: I am Your child, Lord; yet Master owns me,/drives me like a mule. In resounding bold text, God tells her He means for her to be free. The story is sketched between passages of prayerful dialogue that keep Tubman from giving up and eventually call upon her to be the Moses of [her] people.. [1. Children's poetry. 2. Nursery rhymes.]
2. Knockin' on Wood : Starring Peg Leg Bates by Lynne Barasch. Summary: Barasch (Radio Rescue) presents a solid picture-book biography of African-American tap dancer Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, born in South Carolina in 1907. Hating to work in the fields alongside his sharecropper mother, the boy would dance for patrons of the local barbershop; at the age of 12, he took a job at a cottonseed mill, where an accident cost him his leg. But, as Barasch tells it, the "musical rhythms in his head that he just had to let out" inspired the young Clayton to learn to walk again, first with crutches made from broomsticks and then with a wooden leg whittled by his uncle. Clayton went on to develop his own "brand of rhythm tap," which he demonstrated first for black audiences and, later, wearing blackface to disguise his skin color, in vaudeville theaters restricted to white performers and audiences.
Harriet Tubman (standing) with slaves she helped free
