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Description
A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth.
It's a fine day in June. Cassandra's family has just moved from the city back to her parents' hometown in Texas. Cassie likes her new house, and her new school is okay, but Texas doesn't quite feel like home yet.
What Cassie doesn't know is that her family has a surprise for her - a Texas tradition. As she helps prepare red velvet cake, fried chicken, and piles of other dishes, she wonders what makes June 19th so important. It isn't until Cassie and her family arrive downtown that she discovers what the commotion is about. And, in the process, she realizes that she and her family have indeed come home.
With text and illustrations as warm as a summer day, author Carole Boston Weatherford and artist Yvonne Buchanan bring the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth to life for children. Readers of all ages will delight in this declaration of freedom and homecoming.
Publication date
October 01, 1995
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781600602481
Lexile Measure
650
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
BISAC categories
JUV030000 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | General
Publishers Weekly
Starring a likable girl named Cassandra, Weatherford's debut introduces readers to Juneteenth, which commemorates the events of June 19, 1865. On that day Texas slaves learned about their emancipation-an astonishing two and a half years after Lincoln signed the proclamation. Cassandra, newly moved to Texas, doesn't know about the holiday-her parents and other relatives are cooking, dancing and dressing up a storm, all the while telling her to expect a surprise (the only hint is that it's a Texas tradition). She is duly astonished by the rousing Juneteenth celebration, with its shows, parade, crafts and cheerful spectators. Although wordy, the enthusiastic text allows readers to discover-and celebrate-the holiday along with Cassandra. But the larger treat is newcomer Buchanan's loose pen-and-ink and watercolor art. Festive and full of mirth, her fluid, motion-packed lines put a visible spring in her characters' steps, and her palette is as summery as lemonade and blue skies. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2019 Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Caldecott Honor Books Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, which was also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; and the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. Carole Boston Weatherford, autora y poeta superventas del New York Times, fue nombrada ganadora del Premio de No Ficción del Washington Post-Children's Book Guild en 2019. Sus numerosos libros para niños incluyen al ganador del Premio de Autor Coretta Scott King Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, ilustrado por Floyd Cooper; los libros de Honor Caldecott Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, ilustrado por Kadir Nelson, y Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, ilustrado por Ekua Holmes, que también fue un libro de Honor Robert F. Sibert; el aclamado por la crítica Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, ilustrado por Eric Velasquez; y el libro de Honor Newbery BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, ilustrado por Michele Wood. Carole Boston Weatherford vive en Carolina del Norte.
