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I Have Heard of a Land
(Revised)
Author
Illustrator
Floyd Cooper
Publication Date
January 05, 2000
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction / 2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
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Description
I have heard of a land
Where the imagination has no fences
Where what is dreamed one night
Is accomplished the next day
In the late 1880s, signs went up all around America - land was free in the Oklahoma territory. And it was free to everyone: Whites, Blacks, men and women alike. All one needed to stake a claim was hope and courage, strength and perseverance. Thousands of pioneers, many of them African-Americans newly freed from slavery, headed west to carve out a new life in the Oklahoma soil.
Drawing upon her own family history, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Thomas has crafted an unforgettable anthem to these brave and determned people from America's past. Richly illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award honoree Floyd Cooper, I Have Heard of a Land is a glorious tribute to the Afrian-American pioneer spirit.
00-01 Sequoyah Children's Book Award Masterlist
Publication date
January 05, 2000
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780064436175
Guided Reading Level
Q
Publisher
HarperCollins
Series
Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)
BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV016140 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
JUV030060 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States
JUV016140 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
JUV030060 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States
Library of Congress categories
History
African Americans
Frontier and pioneer life
Oklahoma
Land Rush, 1889
African Americans
Frontier and pioneer life
Oklahoma
Land Rush, 1889
ALA/Booklist
Starred Review
In this lyrical tribute to the pioneer spirit, here personified by a Black woman. Thomas describes what it was like to arrive in untamed territory and try to turn it into a home.
Kirkus
Thomas portrays how something as plain as the vast prairie, as simple as a sod hut, could look beautiful to these new settlers. She re-creates in fiction the histories of women, unrecorded except in diaries and anecdotes passed down through generations of her family; a note informs readers where the facts and writer's license diverge.
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