Ellen's broom /
Lyons, Kelly Starling.
Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter. - New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2013.
0399250034 (hardback) 9780399250033 (hardback)
2011047101
African American families--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--Juvenile fiction.
Brooms and brushes--Juvenile fiction.
Marriage--Juvenile fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile fiction.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter. - New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2013.
0399250034 (hardback) 9780399250033 (hardback)
2011047101
African American families--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--Juvenile fiction.
Brooms and brushes--Juvenile fiction.
Marriage--Juvenile fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile fiction.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.