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Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.L57833 Hen 2007
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Van Pelt Library PZ7.L57833 Hen 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Ellen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816---Juvenile fiction.
- Brown, Henry Box.
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile fiction.
- Underground Railroad.
- Brown, Henry Box, 1816---Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Underground Railroad--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- The artwork was created with pencil, watercolor and oil.
- The text was set in 16-point B. Cochin Bold. The display type was set in Algerian EF.
- Book design by Marijka Kostiw.
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [40]).
- Caldecott Honor, 2008.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks with her stamp on title leaf.
- Banks Collection copy: 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:
- 043977733X
- 9780439777339
- OCLC:
- 65207060
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