Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
- Format
- Book
- Language
- English
- Εdition
- 1st ed.
- Published/Created
- New York : Scholastic Press, ©2007.
- Description
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location | Call Number | Status | Location Service | Notes |
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library | Alma-3752 Eng 21Q unprocessed Browse related items | Reading Room Request |
Details
- Subject(s)
- Illustrator
- Library of Congress genre(s)
- Rare books genre
- Summary note
- A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
- Bibliographic references
- Includes bibliographical references (colophon).
- Awards
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- Caldecott Honor Book, 2008
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- Notable Books for a Global Society, 2008
- Binding note
- Pub. color-printed pictorial boards with matching dust jacket and copper endpapers.
- ISBN
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- 043977733X ((reinforced))
- 9780439777339 ((reinforced))
- 9780545105606
- 0545105609
- 9781448773329 ((Paw Prints))
- 1448773326 ((Paw Prints))
- 9780439928786
- 0439928788
- 9781428721920
- 1428721924
- LCCN
- 2006009487
- OCLC
- 65207060
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