Freedom Song

Sally M. Walker

HarperCollins, Jan 3, 2012 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 40 pages

Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.

About the author

Sally M. Walker's many award-winning books bring history and science alive for young readers. Her books include the Robert F. Sibert Medal winner "Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley" and the Revolutionary War story "The 18 Penny Goose" (an I Can Read Book). Ms. Walker lives in DeKalb, Illinois.

Sean Qualls received a Coretta Scott King Honor award for his illustrations in Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford, and has published many other acclaimed books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family. Visit his website at www.seanqualls.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Freedom Song
• Author: Sally M. Walker
• Illustrated by: Sean Qualls
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012
• ISBN: 0060583118, 9780060583118
• Length: 40 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American