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Minnette Coleman

Minnette Coleman

About

Minnette Coleman is an author, actress and singer born in Atlanta, Georgia. She has lived in New York City for almost 25 years. Having performed off-off Broadway she has toured her one woman show on the civil rights movement in the south, been a teacher actress for The Creative Arts Team at New York University and is a member of the esteemed Harlem Writer's Guild, one of the oldest literary organizations in the country.

Her first published novel was the much-acclaimed 'The Blacksmith's Daughter' about the colored middle-classes in Atlanta in the 1920s.

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule

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<p>What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Robert and Kait decide to look for the golden ruler that their Mom has told them about, only to find out that she meant RULE instead of ruler. What is this &quot;Golden Rule&quot; and what does it mean? Join in the children's quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and share it with others, as you meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books. This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include Mice &amp; Spiders &amp; Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won thirty-six awards for her previous rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called &quot;an absolute master of rhyming&quot; by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and &quot;a modern day Dr. Seuss&quot; by GMTA Review. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Now retired, she travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/sherrillscannon</p>

Story Behind The Book

I wrote the story because my father was the City Editor of a major newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia at the time these two rapes occurred. I was too young to take part in the real tale, but it is what might have happened had I been.

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&quot;This is an engrossing tale about black folks in the South during a specific time in American social history. I really liked the authentic narrator/voice of this young lady growing up and coming to grips with her idea of what is right and what is wrong . I highly recommend this read for young and older readers alike,&quot;Brenda J. Young, Ph.D., Argosy University.<br /><br /><p style="margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">“Do not expect fireworks in this book. There is nothing to celebrate in this tragic tale of too-recent history. Expect insight. Expect humanity. Expect a cruelly-wrought hope. Expect subtlety of prose style and storytelling. You will find them,” Tim Roux, author of ‘Missio’ and ‘The Dance of the Pheasodile’.</span></p><p></p>