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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

January's Sparrow

January's Sparrow
Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009-10-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399250778

Patricia Polacco's most powerful book since Pink and Say. In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites?including young Sadie?must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind her most valuable possession, the wooden sparrow carved for her by January. Through the Underground Railroad, the Crosswhites make the slow and arduous journey to Marshall, Michigan, where they finally live in freedom. And there they stay, happily, until the day a mysterious package shows up on their doorsteps. It is January?s sparrow, with a note that reads, ?I found you.? How the Crosswhites, and the whole town of Marshall, face this threat will leave readers empowered and enthralled. This is a Polacco adventure that will live in the minds of children for years.

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?

Henry's Freedom Box

Henry's Freedom Box
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338082655

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.

Big Brothers Are the Best

Big Brothers Are the Best
Author: Fran Manushkin
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1404872248

A new big brother finds lots to love about his new baby.