The Bluest Eye (Turtleback School & Library)

Brief Description: Set in Ohio in the 1940's, this is the story of an eleven-year-old black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue eyed children that America loves. Brief Description: For use in schools and libraries only. The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an 11-year-old African-American girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted. Publisher Marketing: The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Publisher Marketing: From the 1993 Nobel Prize-winner comes a novel so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry (The New York Times). First published in 1965, The Bluest Eye is the story of a black girl who prays--with unforeseen consequences--for her eyes to turn blue so she will be accepted. Includes a new Foreword by the author. Review Citations:

Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 62 (EAN 9780452287068, Paperback)

Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2001 pg. 23 (EAN 9780788743542, Analog Audio Cassette)

Library Journal 01/01/2001 (EAN 9780788743542, Analog Audio Cassette)

Essence 08/01/2011 pg. 85 (EAN 9780375411557, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 796 (EAN 9780375411557, Hardcover)

Essence 02/01/2011 pg. 168 (EAN 9780375411557, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1016 (EAN 9780375411557, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23 (EAN 9780375411557, Hardcover)

Library Journal 04/15/1994 pg. 118 (EAN 9780679433736, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 468 (EAN 9780679433736, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 471 (EAN 9780679433736, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 629 (EAN 9780679433736, Hardcover)

Library Journal 11/15/1994 (EAN 9780452273054, Paperback)

Newsweek 12/03/2007 pg. 20 (EAN 9780606069403, Prebound-Other)

Contributor Bio:  Morrison, Toni Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including "Sula", "Song of Solomon", "Beloved", and, most recently, "A Mercy". She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.