· The story authored by Ellen Levine succesfully traces Brown's early life to his ultimate escape to freedom at the age thirty-three. Award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson creates such realistic intimacy with his muted but intense illustrations of former Virginia slave Henry "Box" www.doorway.ru by: · Overview. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work Brand: Scholastic, Inc. · By Ellen Levine and Illustrated By Kadir Nelson. This Caldecott Honor book tells the story of how Henry "Box" Brown excaped slavery by "mailing" himself in a box to the North using the Underground Railroad. The back cover consists of brown wood, much like what was used to make wooden cratesin the 's. The end pages are also a brownish bronze color similar to the color of Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.
" Henry's Freedom Box is about a slave named Henry and he is-just really trying to find freedom when he gets taken away from his family. So one day Henry puts himself in a box and sends himself to a free state. This is truly a heart warming story about slavey and freedom and finding the hero in you. "- Lilly, 12/15/ Henry's Freedom Box (Scholastic Press, ), written by Ellen Levin and illustrated by Nadir Nelson, tells the true story of Henry Brown's escape to freedom. Traveling in a wooden box, his "Freedom Box," which he built himself, Henry was sent through the mail from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Henry finally has a birthday — his first day of freedom. Henry "Box" Brown became one of the most famous runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. His true story is retold with poetic grace by Ellen Levine, a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author, and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Henry's Freedom Box (Scholastic Press, ), written by Ellen Levin and illustrated by Nadir Nelson, tells the true story of Henry Brown's escape to freedom. Traveling in a wooden box, his "Freedom Box," which he built himself, Henry was sent through the mail from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Ellen Levine has always been drawn to stories of people who struggled for justice, and of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. She was fascinated by Henry "Box" Brown, whose escape is recounted in The Underground Railroad by William Still, first published in www.doorway.ru: Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad () by Ellen Levine and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
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