Follow the Drinking Gourd
Title | Follow the Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Winter |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 79 |
Release | 2014-06-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307982785 |
Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Title | Follow the Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | Cari Meister |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 1404873759 |
Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
The Drinking Gourd
Title | The Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | F. N. Monjo |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780064440424 |
The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?
The Gourd Book
Title | The Gourd Book PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Heiser |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016-02-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0806173211 |
Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
Title | A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Adler |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 143013044X |
"Gail Nelson is an unobtrusive narrator who lets Harriet Tubman's deeds and personality speak for themselves. And speak they do!" - AudioFile
Like a Bird
Title | Like a Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Grady |
Publisher | Millbrook Press ™ |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512418994 |
Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit. Like a Bird brings together text, music, and illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Michele Wood to convey the rich meaning behind thirteen of these powerful songs.
Aquila's Drinking Gourd
Title | Aquila's Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Dell |
Publisher | Child's World |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | 9781591870135 |
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.