Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books) - Softcover

Hopkinson, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679874720 ISBN 13: 9780679874720

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Illus. in full color. As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash of inspiration, Clara sees how she can use the cloth in her scrap bag to make a map of the land--a freedom quilt--that no master will ever suspect. "A particularly effective way to introduce the subject to younger children, adding a trenchant immediacy to their understanding of a difficult but important chapter in the country's past."--(starred) "Horn Book." "This first-rate book is a triumph of the heart."--(starred) "Publishers Weekly. "

About this title

Review:

"A particularly effective way to introduce the subject to younger children, adding a trenchant immediacy to their understanding of a difficult but important chapter in the country's past."--(starred) Horn Book.

"This first-rate book is a triumph of the heart."--(starred) Publishers Weekly.

From the Author:

A Note from the Author
SWEET CLARA is a work of fiction, inspired by hearing a story some years ago on National Public Radio about slave quilts. Now, a new book by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard, HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW, A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad, presents research that a secret code really did exist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679874720
• ISBN 13: 9780679874720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Ransome James