Caldecott Honor Book author-illustrator Mora’s ( Thank You, Omu!, 2018) cut-paper mixed-media style adds multiple layers to the narrative. This is a work that points to small contributions of African Americans that have made a big impact.
presidents and experienced the end of slavery, as well as the civil rights movement. With simple, no-frills prose, Hubbard ( Hammering to Freedom, 2018) recounts the story of this hardworking woman who lived through 26 U.S. When, at age 116, she was finally able to read her favorite book, the Bible, she was declared the oldest student in the nation. Mary longed to read, but marriage, child-rearing, and work kept her so busy that she couldn’t fulfill her dream until she was a centenarian. She always contributed to the household, from her youth of enslavement to her time as a sharecropper. Mary Walker was born in the South eight years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
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