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Before She Was Harriet

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by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2019-06-11Pages:32
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823444298ISBN-10:823444295UPC:9780823444298Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Historical, Social Activists, WomenSize:11.00 x 8.70 x 0.10 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC3GCYWKAC
An evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book.

We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad. As Minty she was a slave whose spirit could not be broken. As Araminta she was a young girl whose father showed her the stars and the first steps on the path to freedom.

This lush, lyrical biography in verse begins with a glimpse of Harriet Tubman as an old woman, and travels back in time through the many roles she played through her life: spy, liberator, suggragist and more. Illustrated by James Ransome, whose paintings for The Creation won a Coretta Scott King medal, this is a riveting introduction to an American hero.

The paperback edition includes a new author's note, and a list of resources for further study.

A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Christopher Award winner
A Jane Addams Children's Honor Book
A Booklist "Top of the List" selection
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823444298ISBN-10:823444295UPC:9780823444298Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Historical, Social Activists, WomenSize:11.00 x 8.70 x 0.10 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC3GCYWKAC
Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome have collaborated on many award-winning picture books for children. These include Satchel Paige, which was an ALA Best Book for Children and Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, which received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal. The Quilt Alphabet was praised as "A blue-ribbon ABC book that combines bright, folksy oil paintings and lilting riddle-poems," in a starred review in Publishers Weekly and called "a feast for the eyes" in School Library Journal. They live in the Hudson River Valley region of New York.
Publisher: Holiday House

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Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

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Lesa Cline-Ransome

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