Henry's Freedom Box
Written by: Ellen Levine
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
"Inspired by an actual 1830s lithograph, this beautifully crafted picture book briefly relates the story of Henry "Box" Brown's daring escape from slavery. Torn from his mother as a child, and then forcibly separated from his wife and children as an adult, a heartsick and desperate Brown conspired with abolitionists and successfully traveled north to Philadelphia in a packing crate. His journey took just over one full day, during which he was often sideways or upside down in a wooden crate large enough to hold him, but small enough not to betray its contents. The story ends with a reimagining of the lithograph that inspired it, in which Henry Brown emerges from his unhappy confinement—in every sense of the word—and smiles upon his arrival in a comfortable Pennsylvania parlor."
School Library Journal Review
Web Resources:
http://www.readingtokids.org/Books/BookView.php?pag=3&bookID=00000590
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=32442
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