Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud, illus. by John Holyfield. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4058-3
As Alex, a contemporary African-American boy, watches a mule named Belle munching collard greens in a garden in Gee’s Bend, Ala., her elderly owner tells him that the animal can eat all she wants—“She’s earned it.” Inspired by real events, Ramsey (Ru
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Bettye Stroud, Author, Felicia Marshall, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880000-39-7
A first effort for both author and illustrator, this languorous picture book focuses on two African American sisters living in the rural South in the 1940s who spend a summer day caring for an elderly neighbor with a sore foot. Seemingly matching...
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Bettye Stroud, Author, Erin Susan Bennett, Illustrator , illus. by Erin Susanne Bennett. Candlewick
, 15.99 (32p) ISBN (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2423-1
Stroud's (Down Home at Miss Dessa's
) affecting story of Hannah, a slave on a Georgia plantation, is inspired by the actual use of quilts as a means of communication on the Underground Railroad. Hannah explains that when she was 10, as she...
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