Author: Virginia Hamilton
Narrator: Lisa Renee' Pitts
Unabridged: 2 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Categories: Children's Fiction
Virginia Hamilton (1936–2002) grew up in rural Ohio among an extended family and generations of storytellers. Her grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought by his mother from Virginia slavery to Ohio via the Underground Railroad. She received nearly every award in the field of children’s literature, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Newbery Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Award.
I would actually give this book three and a half stars. Virginia Hamilton, in this very short novel, creates an amazingly complex world (including uncommonly textrous histories for each character, especially for a book of this brevity,) and lets the reader get to know them well enough to deeply fee......more
Delightful and educational. This would be a great read aloud book for elementary children but an enlightening read for all ages. I am a retired school teacher and now I fill in all the books I did not have time to read. Try children's books because they will capture your attention.......more
