Ellen G. Levine (Livres)

Ellen G. Levine Livres

Ellen Levine trouve sa fascination dans les coulisses des histoires, s'immergeant dans le passé et rencontrant des personnages d'époques révolues. Son travail se concentre souvent sur des aspects non conventionnels et méconnus, qu'elle s'efforce de révéler par des récits captivants. Levine est reconnue pour son approche des genres, apportant fréquemment profondeur et nuance à sa narration.

Henry's Freedom Box

40pages
2 heures de lecture

4,5(16087)Évaluer

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.