Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation (Incredible Lives for Young Readers (Ilyr)) - Softcover

Sherman, Pat

9780802855411: Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation (Incredible Lives for Young Readers (Ilyr))

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ISBN 10: 0802855415 ISBN 13: 9780802855411

Verlag: WM B EERDMANS CO (JUVENILE), 2020

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AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

Arkansas State Library, Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Reading List (2012-2013)
Simon Wiesenthal Center / Museum of Tolerance, Once Upon a World Children's Picture Book Award (2011)
Society of Illustrators, "The Original Art" annual exhibition

Ben, a young slave, uses every chance he gets to teach himself to read, practicing with the words he sees on street signs and in shop windows and even in cast-off newspapers he finds in the gutter.

But after the Civil War breaks out, his master leaves town and Ben finds himself in a slave prison. One night, the prisoners bribe a guard to get their hands on a newspaper, and to the applause of his fellow slaves, Ben reads aloud the momentous news of Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation — surely one of the most remarkable readings of that document ever.

Based on the true story of Benjamin Holmes, Pat Sherman's stirring text and the memorable illustrations of Coretta Scott King medalist Floyd Cooper pay tribute to the power of freedom — and to the power of the written word.

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�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

Pat Sherman works as a writer, library professional, and writing instructor in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her previous books include The Sun's Daughter, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Clarion), and several nonfiction books for young people on historical subjects ranging from colonial America to the present day.

Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) won many prestigious awards for his illustrations, including the 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for The Blacker the Berry, written by Joyce Carol Thomas (Amistad), and three previous Coretta Scott King Honors, a Da Vinci Award, and an NAACP Image Honor. Throughout his over thirty-year career, Floyd illustrated more than ninety books, including Unspeakable by Carol Boston Weatherford (Lerner), Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes (HarperCollins), Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation by Pat Sherman (Eerdmans), and Mississippi Morning by Ruth Vander Zee (Eerdmans). Floyd lived in Pennsylvania until his death in 2021.

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