Moses
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
By Carole Boston Weatherford; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
(Jump At The Sun, Hardcover, 9780786851751, 44pp.)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
Categories: Biographical - United States, Historical - United States - 19th Century, People & Places - United States - African-American
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This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses.
Kadir Nelson is the illustrator of many books for children, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, an NAACP Image Award winner, a Caldecott Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner; Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please, by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee; and Will Smith's Just the Two of Us, also an NAACP Image Award winner. He is also the author/illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.
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Summer 2010 Kid Lit Class by LostgalClairescott's Wish List by clairescott
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