|
|
|
|
| |
 |
|
Show Way |
| |
| Jacqueline Woodson, Hudson
Talbott (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0399237496
Format: Hardcover, 48pp
Pub. Date: September 2005
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BBP Sales Rank: 5,758
Age Range: 8 to 12
List Price: $16.99
BBP Price: $13.59 Save 20% |
|
|
|
|
click to enlarge |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big
plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call
her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and
Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways --
maps for slaves to follow to freedom. When she grew up and had a little girl,
she passed on this knowledge. And generations later, Soonie -- who was born
free -- taught her own daughter how to sew beautiful quilts to be sold at
market and how to read.
From slavery to freedom, through segregation, freedom marches and the fight for
literacy, the tradition they called Show Way has been passed down by the women
in Jacqueline Woodson's family as a way to remember the past and celebrate the
possibilities of the future. Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous
art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and
knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives.
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
