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Henry's freedom box [sound recording] : a true story from the Underground Railroad / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: CD854RA | Weston Woods/ScholasticSeries: Weston Woods read-along CDPublication details: [Norwalk, Conn.] : Weston Woods/Scholastic, c2009.Description: 1 sound disc (ca. 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 v. unpaged : col. ill. ; 29 cm.)ISBN:
  • 043977733X (reinforced)
  • 0545134455 (disc) :
  • 9780439777339 (reinforced)
  • 9780545134453 (disc) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Story with page-turn signals (10:13) -- Story without page-turn signals (10:06) -- Author's note (1:52) -- An interview with Ellen Levine (6:30) -- Jubilee in the morning (2:18)
Production credits:
  • Music by David Mansfield.
Awards:
  • Caldecott Honor book, 2008.
Narrated by Jerry Dixon.Summary: A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Audiobook Children's Audiobook Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Read-along Levine Ell Available 2008 Caldecott Honor Book; water damage 3/29/23 33111005799966
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

Accompanying book includes bibliographical references (colophon).

Story with page-turn signals (10:13) -- Story without page-turn signals (10:06) -- Author's note (1:52) -- An interview with Ellen Levine (6:30) -- Jubilee in the morning (2:18)

Music by David Mansfield.

Narrated by Jerry Dixon.

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Caldecott Honor book, 2008.

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