Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys - Softcover

Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689877935 ISBN 13: 9780689877933

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys Introduces young readers to the struggles and sacrifices that young African Americans, especially girls, had to endure in order to attend school and become educated. Ages 5-8 years.

About this title

Product Description:

Introduces young readers to the struggles and sacrifices that young African Americans, especially girls, had to endure in order to attend school and become educated. A Coretta Scott King Honor book. Reprint.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard's grandfather was Cornelius "C.C." Fitzgerald. His brother Will told stories about their childhood to his daughter Jessie, who passed them along to the author. Inspired by these stories, Elizabeth visited Jonesborough, Tennessee, a town seven miles from where her grandfather grew up. There she learned about a school started by Quakers called the Warner Institute and wrote this story.

E.B. Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald, which was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, and This Little Light of Mine. He received the Caldecott Honor for Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes. E.B. Lewis lives in New Jersey, and you can visit him online at EBLewis.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0689877935
• ISBN 13: 9780689877933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lewis E B