New Releases by Bryan Collier

After a tragedy a young boy discovers a connection between music and colors that helps guide him and gives him comfort in times of darkness.

This companion title to TROMBONE SHORTY Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award & Odyssey Honor winner is a well-tuned, beautiful visual and auditory exploration of a beloved community as Shorty visits the streets of New Orleans to find answers on how to be a leader in his band.

This lyrical beginning-reader by multi award-winning artist Bryan Collier turns the closet on its heel and redefines what it means to be a pair. Beautifully rendered art paired with rich, rhyming dialog creates a powerful reading experience.

Every church can grow. Gone may be the days when churches could simply sit on the corner and attract passers-by, but people still long for the peace and confidence faith in God provides. So what do we do? We take the church to the people. We become a ”Go-To Church” rather than a “Come-Here Church.” Jesus’ followers didn’t wait for nonbelievers to find them. The disciples didn’t stay in the Upper Room or sit around waiting after Pentecost and Peter’s great sermon recorded in Acts. No, they struck out and went where God led—throughout the world to all people. How? Through creating multi-sites. Using the strategies and guidance of this book, you can customize the mission and ministry of your church to connect with people where they are. You will not only grow your church, but enhance God''s Kingdom and accomplish the mission of the Great Commandment.

Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. A Caldecott Honor Book & Coretta Scott King Medal Book. Reprint.

Uptown is the 2001 winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

The power of Herman Melville''s fiction owes much to his literary voice--a protean speaking presence brought to life by innovative and masterful rhetoric. In this book Bryan C. Short explores the evolution of that voice through close analysis of Melville''s works, the deft application of literary and rhetorical theory, and new biographical insights. Described by the author as a "rhetorical biography," Cast by Means of Figures presents Melville as a self-consciously experimental writer whose literary development was shaped more by rhetorical concerns than by philosophical, psychological, or social influences. Short begins with an examination of Melville''s early immersion in the theory of his day, especially that of the widely popular Scottish rhetorician Hugh Blair. He then analyzes each of Melville''s major fictional writings from Typee to Billy Budd, tracing the structural force and interplay of Melville''s key figurative devices. He shows how each work either builds on or departs dialectically from its predecessors in ways that explain the complex and shifting aesthetic of Melville''s fiction. In the final chapter, a coda entitled "Tropics of Fiction," Short reviews theories of figurative language from classical times to the present and details his own theoretical synthesis.