Author Gary Golio and Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator E.B. Lewis collaborate again (Dark Was the Night) for Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem, an artful picture book that provides a loving snapshot of photographer Roy DeCarava (1919-2009), who saw Harlem in an "old crumpled soda can," the spray of a fire hydrant, and mirrored in the eyes of the people "passing each other on the street."
Golio has penned an elegant ode to a notable photographer, filling his narrative with sensory details and enriching it with quotations from DeCarava himself. Lewis's stunning watercolor art showcases the people and the neighborhood, offering a variety of perspectives to reflect DeCarava's vision and work. Backmatter gives more details about the extraordinary man who worked many different jobs, but made use of "his free time... to record the beauty of what he saw around him." --Lynn Becker, reviewer, blogger, and children's book author