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Moses when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom

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.

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
Other Authors: Nelson, Kadir (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Tubman, Harriet, > 1820?-1913 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Slaves > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Underground railroad > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American women abolitionists > Biography > Juvenile.
Abolitionists > Biography > Juvenile.
African American women > Biography > Juvenile.
Women > Biography > Juvenile.
Caldecott honor book.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"Jump at the sun."
Physical Description:[42] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Audience:Ages 5-8.
ISBN:0786851759
9780786851751
Author Notes:Carole Boston Weatherford is an ALSC winner of the Children's Literature Legacy Award and has written more than fifty books, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , which was winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator, a Caldecott Honor Book, and a Sibert Honor Book. She is also the author of the award-winning books Kin: Rooted in Hope ; BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom ; 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 . Weatherford taught at Fayatteville State University in North Carolina and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.



Kadir Nelson is a highly acclaimed painter and the illustrator of many books for young readers, including the Caldecott Medal winner The Undefeated , written by Kwame Alexander; the New York Times bestseller We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor as well as the Sibert Medal; Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game ; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom , written by Carole Boston Weatherford, which was an NAACP Image Award winner, Caldecott Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner. His work has appeared in many publications, including Rolling Stone , Sports Illustrated , and The New Yorker . Kadir's original paintings are in the permanent collections of the US House of Representatives and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture. A recipient of the Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also been inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. He lives in Southern California.

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