Letter to My Daughter
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.
Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.
Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share.
“I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.”—from Letter to My Daughter
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Maya Angelou. (2008). Letter to My Daughter. Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Maya Angelou. 2008. Letter to My Daughter. Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter. Random House Publishing Group, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Maya Angelou. Letter to My Daughter. Random House Publishing Group, 2008.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
There are 2 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781588367518
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B001GJ2QBU
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781588367518
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 1400066123
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Maya Angelou
- title
- Letter to My Daughter
- dateAdded
- 2017-08-04T12:39:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=155268
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Letter to My Daughter
- crossRefId
- 155268
- id
- e0ab7dbf-7eaf-47d6-a1b7-2656f6a9e7d5
- starRating
- 3.8
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: LettertoMyDaughter_9781588367518_155268
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 3291353
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781588367518
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 9/23/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/LettertoMyDaughter9781588367518.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: LettertoMyDaughter_155268
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- type: ASIN
- value: B001GJ2QBU
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 9/23/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/LettertoMyDaughter9781588367518.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: LettertoMyDaughter_9781588367518_155268
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781588367518
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 3929
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 9/23/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/LettertoMyDaughter9781588367518.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Graduation
- value: mother
- value: Black history
- value: autobiographies
- value: Memoirs
- value: women
- value: Poetry
- value: Maya Angelou
- value: biographies
- value: Mother's Day
- value: inspirational books
- value: motivational books
- value: gift for daughter
- value: graduation gift
- value: graduation gifts
- value: gift for mom
- value: mothers day
- value: mom book
- value: black authors
- value: african american books
- value: mothers day gifts
- value: mother's day gifts
- value: poetry books for women
- value: mom gifts
- value: inspirational books for women
- value: gifts for mom
- value: black history books
- value: maya angelou books
- value: mother day gifts
- value: gifts for daughter
- value: daughter gifts
- value: mother daughter gifts
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Angelou, Maya
- bioText: Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
- name: Maya Angelou
- imprint
- Random House
- publishDate
- 2008-09-23T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Letter to My Daughter
- fullDescription
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.
Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.
Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share.
“I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.”—from Letter to My Daughter - reviews
- premium: False
- source: Baltimore Sun
- content: "It's a book to give to one's daughter, mother, son or father, but definitely one to be read and savored."
- premium: False
- source: Washington Post Book World
- content: "Sound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion . . . What is clear is that [Maya] Angelou is, all these years later, still a charmer, still speaking her mind."
- premium: False
- source: Kirkus Reviews
- content: "A slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom . . . Overarching each brief chapter is the vital energy of a woman taking life's measure with every step."
- premium: False
- source: Fredericksburg Free Lance--Star
- content: "Written in Angelou's beautiful, poetic style, the essays feel like warm advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom you know was earned."
- premium: False
- source: Rocky Mountain News
- content: "Spellbinding . . . Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire. . . . Each [essay] delivers a powerful message."
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
September 22, 2008
From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou's erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Angelou acknowledges her own inauguration into daughterhood in "Philanthropy," recalling the first time her mother called her "my daughter." Angelou becomes a mother herself at an early age, after a meaningless first sexual experience: "Nine months later I had a beautiful baby boy. The birth of my son caused me to develop enough courage to invent my life." Fearlessly sharing amusing, if somewhat embarrassing, moments in "Senegal," the mature Angelou is cosmopolitan but still capable of making a mistake: invited to a dinner party while visiting the African nation, Angelou becomes irritated that none of the guests will step on a lovely carpet laid out in the center of the room, so she takes it upon herself to cross the carpet, only to discover the carpet is a table cloth that had been laid out in honor of her visit. The wisdom in this slight volume feels light and familiar, but it's also earnest and offered with warmth.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
November 1, 2008
This collection of short essays, most of them two or three pages long, continues Angelou's themes in "Even the Stars Look Lonesome and Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" by combining personal experience with prescriptions for a meaningful life. Dedicating the book to the daughter she never had, Angelou recounts her childhood in Stamps, AR, where she endured the oppression of racism, an experience that has left its indelible mark on her. When she became pregnant during high school, she chose to have the child and raise him herself despite the difficulty, which taught her independence at a young age. She emphasizes the need for cultural tolerance and doesn't hesitate to reveal her own cultural misstepse.g., in Morocco, mistaking raisins in her coffee for cockroaches and walking on the tablecloth in Senegal. Angelou is at her best when she departs from popular views, as in her chapter on violence, in which she disagrees with those who see rape as solely about power and not about sexual violence. This collection will appeal to Angelou fans and those looking for short essays that offer important truths. Recommended for large collections.Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at GeneseoCopyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
September 15, 2008
Poet and author Angelou, who has a son but no daughter, nevertheless speaks to all women as her daughter in this slim volume of stories, poetry, and life observances. Useful events of her own life become lessons for other women, including stories of abuse at the hands of men, finally absorbing the praise her mother heaped on her, accepting and respecting her gift for writing, appreciating the little acts of kindness that pass between friends, and finding friends in unexpected places. She relates candid stories of many a personal faux pas, committed in ignorance of other cultures and the lessons learned about humility. Recalling bittersweet memories of friends who have died, she notes that each of her birthdays is a remembrance of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the same date. Pondering the commonality of the human heart in all artists, she applauds the influence of Celia Cruz, the Cuban singer, on Angelous own sense of rhythm in reading and writing poetry. Through the poetry of others, she explores the particular vigor of black poetry, writing of oppression and hope in the same breath. She is lyrical in her essays on race, religion, and regionalism as she recalls a life lived well into her seventies, sharing lessons learned on the art of living a good life. Readers will appreciate this first original collection in10 years by the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)
- popularity
- 852
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/e0ab7dbf-7eaf-47d6-a1b7-2656f6a9e7d5/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- e0ab7dbf-7eaf-47d6-a1b7-2656f6a9e7d5
- starRating
- 3.9
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/E0A/B7D/BF/{E0AB7DBF-7EAF-47D6-A1B7-2656F6A9E7D5}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: African American Nonfiction
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 09/23/2008
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781400066124
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.
Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong... - sortTitle
- Letter to My Daughter
- crossRefId
- 155268
- publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO007000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Literary
- code: BIO022000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Women
- code: BIO002010
- description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black
