Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford . [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, (c) 2020.Edition: first editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 x 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780763691561
- 0763691569
- E450.W438.B69 2020
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- Newbery Honor, 2021
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) | G. Allen Fleece Library Newbery Award Collection - Second Floor | E450.W438.B69 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923002060529 |
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Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape!
In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author and illustrator, and a bibliography AMAZON
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