Patricia Hruby Powell
![Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LAYC_Cover.jpeg)
![Struttin' with Some Barbecue](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Struttin-CVR-150a-709x1024.jpg)
![Loving Vs. Virginia](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/10Loving-vs.-Virginia-cover-218x300.jpg)
![Josephine - words by Patricia Hruby Powell, pictures by Christian Robinson](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Josephine-medals-e1534795407106.jpg)
![Frog Brings Rain](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FrogBringsRain220.jpg)
![Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/zinna_cover220w.jpg)
![Blossom Tales - Flower Stories of Many Folk](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2-Blossom-Tales-cover-242x300.jpg)
Patricia’s signed personally-inscripted books can be purchased online at Jane Addams Book Shop.
Or unsigned books, wherever you purchase books
Patricia Hruby Powell was formerly a dancer, storyteller, and librarian. Her four latest books are Junior Library Guild Selections and have all won numerous awards. Forthcoming are Cave of the Heart: The Story of Martha Graham (Chronicle Books 2023) and a Women’s Suffrage project (Chronicle 202x). She has been a mentor for a WNDB and SCBWI-MI.
Patricia is married to Morgan Powell, composer and jazz trombonist. Together, they live with their Tree Walking Coonhound, Lil.
(YOU CAN VIEW IT ANY TIME THIS MONTH OR NEXT)Let us lift our glasses to equality, freedom, and activism.Learn a bit about Ella Baker,
her vacillating relationship with Rev Martin Luther King
about Gregory Christie’s illustrations,
my writing the book—all in 11 minutes.Or go straight to this link to buy the book at Jane Addams Bookstore (or buy it where you buy books).
![Lift As You Climb](https://talesforallages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/8-Lift-As-You-Climb-thumbnail-247x300.jpg)
—Lisa Lund
Feel free to email me questions or comments.
As always, you good people,
LIFT AS YOU CLIMB.
Stay safe and sane.