Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Author Scholastic $13.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-590-44690-7
This work by the authors of A Long Hard Journey--The Story of the Pullman Porter is a great deal more than a biography of a remarkable woman. The forceful narrative also offers a startling portrayal of a pivotal yet appalling era in American history.
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Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Author, James Ransome, Illustrator Atheneum Books $21.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-689-80856-2
In this stunning achievement, the renowned husband-and-wife team sets 12 Old Testament stories in the context of early 19th-century South Carolina, illustrated with Ransome's glorious paintings. As the McKissacks state in their introduction, ""The...
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Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Author, John Thompson, Illustrator . Scholastic $6.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-590-43028-9
On a Virginia plantation in 1859, the enslaved families work hard to get both the Big House and their own Quarters ready for Christmas. "The McKissacks carefully and convincingly delineate the discrepancies between the two milieus, and the...
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Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Author, John Thompson, Illustrator Scholastic $17.95 (68p) ISBN 978-0-590-43027-2
On a Virginia plantation in 1859, the slaves work hard to get the Big House ready for Christmas, and to prepare their own Quarters for the ``Big Times'' also. As they describe the goings-on during the weeks before Christmas as well as the actual...
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Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Patricia C. Fredrick L., Author, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Author . Scholastic $18.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-590-10764-8
"There wasn't one day when all the slaves were freed at the same time," write the McKissacks (Rebels Against Slavery) in this compelling chronicle of slavery's demise in America. "Whenever slaves learned they were free, that day...
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