Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) -- Carole Boston Weatherford, Hardcover
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) -- Carole Boston Weatherford, Hardcover
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In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and bestselling artist Kadir Nelson offer a resounding, reverent tribute to Harriet Tubman, the woman who earned the name Moses for her heroic role in the Underground Railroad.
I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free...
Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape. Taking with her only her faith, she must creep through woods with hounds at her feet, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in. But she was never alone.
In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one. Courageous, compassionate, and deeply religious, Harriet Tubman, with her bravery and relentless pursuit of freedom, is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 11.60h x 10.80w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780786851751
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 109416 / Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Best Books 05/15/2006 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2006 pg. 78
Booklist 08/01/2006 pg. 81
Kirkus Review - Children 09/01/2006 pg. 914
School Library Journal 10/01/2006 pg. 129
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2006 pg. 148
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2006 pg. 35
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2006 pg. 737
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2006 pg. 28
Kirkus Best Children's Books 12/01/2006 pg. 22
New York Times 02/11/2007 pg. 17
Multicultural Review 05/01/2007 pg. 91
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 177 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2006 pg. 43
About the Author
Carole Boston Weatherford has written more than fifty books, including the Caldecott Honor recipients Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday, NAACP Image Awards for Moses and for Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for The Legendary Miss Lena Horne, and an SCBWI Golden Kite and We Need Diverse Books Walter Award for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library. Baltimore-born, Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
Kadir Nelson is the Caldecott Medal-winning artist of The Undefeated and a two-time Caldecott Honor recipient for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford and Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine. Among his numerous other awards are three NAACP Image Awards, two Coretta Scott King Author Awards, and three Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards. His work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker, and his paintings are in the private and public permanent collections of notable institutions across the country, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.; The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown; the International Olympic Committee, and the US House of Representatives. Kadir lives with his wife is Southern California, and invites you to visit him at www.kadirnelson.com.
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