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Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E444.T82 W43 2006 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio E444.T82 W43 2006 Cook copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913--Juvenile literature.
- Tubman, Harriet.
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- Individuality.
- Determination (Personality trait).
- United States.
- African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American women.
- African American women--Biography.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile literature.
- Underground Railroad.
- Women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women.
- Women--Biography.
- Determination (Personality trait)--Juvenile literature.
- Individuality--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Hyperion Books for Children.
- Other Title:
- When Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jump At the Sun : Hyperion Books for Children, 2006.
- Summary:
- Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Ellice M. Lee. This book is set in Kennerley."--T.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Caldecott Honor, 2007.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Winner, 2007.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1: dustjacket retained with stickers for "Caldecott Honor Book" and "Winner Coretta Scott King Award" on front.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has "Reinforced binding".
- Banks Collection copy 2 has label ("Autographed Copy") on dust jacket and illegible dated 21st-century autograph ("[...] 2006") on title leaf.
- Banks Collection copy 2: dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center Lucy and Richard Cook Children's Book Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0786851759
- OCLC:
- 70887050
- Publisher Number:
- 9780786851751
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