D is for Drinking Gourd

D is for Drinking Gourd
Author: Nancy I. Sanders
Publisher: Discover the World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781585362936

"Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1992-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0679819975

Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist.

Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd

Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd
Author: Nyamnjoh, Francis B.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9956764655

This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africa’s possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded “frontier African” at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuola’s stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.

Adelaide's Secret World

Adelaide's Secret World
Author: Elise Hurst
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524714542

In a bustling city, Adelaide lives alone and watches those who pass her window, but a chance encounter with a kindred spirit brings her out of her shell.

The Drinking Gourd

The Drinking Gourd
Author: Barbara Hambly
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780107692

Benjamin January investigates the murder of a ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railway, helping slaves to freedom. Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded “conductor” of the Underground Railroad – the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief “conductor” of the “station” is found murdered, Jubal Cain – the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi – is accused of the crime. Since Cain can’t expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January has to step in and find the true killer, before their covers are blown. As January probes into the murky labyrinth of slaves, slave-holders, the fugitives who follow the “drinking gourd” north to freedom and those who help them on their way, he discovers that there is more to the situation than meets the eye, and that sometimes there are no easy answers.

Friend on Freedom River

Friend on Freedom River
Author: Gloria Whelan
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1410308332

In 1850 the Detroit River was a major track along the Underground Railroad -- the last step to freedom. The journey across the river was dangerous, especially in winter and especially for a 12-year-old boy. When Louis's father left him in charge of the farm he offered his son this advice, "If you don't know what to do, just do what you think I would have done." Louis relies upon his father's words of wisdom when a runaway slave and her two children come looking for safe passage. In the second title in our Tales of Young Americans series Gloria Whelan -- author of National Book Award winning Homeless Bird -- beautifully creates a suspenseful coming-of-age story while illuminating a difficult time in America's past. Ms. Whelan's narrative again shows the human spirit will forever shine brightly in dark times. Freedom River - part of our Young Americans series - will quickly become a favorite for its important message and look at history from a youngster's eye. Artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen - a Sleeping Bear Press favorite - treats the material as only he can. Each illustrated page demonstrates the same mastery and devotion to his craft as the young heroes he brings to life.

The Drinking Gourd

The Drinking Gourd
Author: F. N. Monjo
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1983-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064440427

The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?

I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!

I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!
Author: Kevin Sherry
Publisher: Dial Books
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2008-06-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A giant squid brags about being the best artist in the entire ocean.

Minty

Minty
Author: Alan Schroeder
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780756904302

Most people know her as Harriet Tubman, but her childhood name was Minty. As a child she kept a dream of freedom tucked inside her heart, and became known a Moses to her people.

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Follow the Drinking Gourd
Author: Wim Coleman
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1939656125

Slavery in the United States became illegal in the 1860s. Before that, many slaves found their way north by following the Big Dipper, or the Drinking Gourd as they called it. Our story begins in 1880 with Old Ellie and Old Sam, two escaped slaves who share their brave story along the path to freedom called the Underground Railroad.