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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Weatherford, Carole Boston
Wood, Michele

Hardcover

BiographyGeneral Juvenile NonfictionPoetry

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 0763691569
ISBN13: 9780763691561
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Apr 14 2020
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.50 Width: 11.00 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Awards: Newbery Medal
A Newbery Honor Book

In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery.

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.

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