The American Revolution & the Civil Rights Movement--2 Picture Books
Item Number: 286
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Gingerbread for Liberty! How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution by Mara Rockliff, picture by Vincent X. Kirsch (Candlewick)
Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of “Revolution!” began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or cannons, but with gingerbread!
Cheerfully told by Mara Rockliff and brought to life by Vincent Kirsch’s inventive cut-paper illustrations,
Gingerbread for Liberty is the story of an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War who changed the course of history one loaf at a time.
Seeds of Freedom: THe Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass, illustrated by E.B.Lewis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Explore a little-known story of the civil rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.
Mention the civil rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening in Huntsville. For the citizens of that city, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. In an engaging celebration of this lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history, author Hester Bass and illustrator E. B. Lewis show children how racial discrimination, bullying, and unfairness can be faced successfully with perseverance and ingenuity.
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