BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

A 2021 Newbery Honor Book In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a 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,

Product details

• Authors: Carole Boston Weatherford, Michele Wood
• Assisted by: Michele Wood (Illustration)
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 10
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781536227758
• ISBN: 978-1-5362-2775-8
• No. of pages: 56
• Dimensions: 273 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics