Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine and illustrations by Kadir Nelson is the last book that I’ll be spotlighting for Black History Month. First, just take a look at that cover! Oh my. What a beautiful book, what beautiful illustrations. It’s the type of book that you know [...]
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson is a 2007 Caldecott Honor book and won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration. This picture book tells the story of Harriet Tubman, who born into slavery, escapes to freedom in the North. Once there she becomes [...]
The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman is a 2005 Newbery Honor book. This is one of those times where I am resorting to the jacket flap because I keep thinking how I could rewrite it in my own words and then I realize I [...]
Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons is based upon Harriet Jacob’s own 1861 autobiography entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, it was the only life that she knew. When her mistress, Margaret Horniblow, who taught Harriet to read [...]
I recently read and reviewed Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges and wanted to follow that up with the picture book The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles and illustrated by George Ford.
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is the first black child to attend an all white elementary school during the civil rights movement and of [...]
