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48 pp.
| Carolrhoda |
September, 1999 |
LibraryISBN 1-57505-045-5$$19.93
(3)
K-3Carolrhoda On My Own Books series.
Illustrated by
Janice Lee Porter.
Freed slave and activist Clara Brown and radical abolitionist John Brown are profiled in these early readers. Simple sentences make for taut story lines and render weighty themes, especially John Brown's controversial legacy, accessible to children. The spare, expressionist paintings in Aunt Clara are mostly successful in conveying emotions in a few strokes; some human figures in John Brown are stiff and awkwardly rendered.