

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
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Illustrator: Michele Wood
Henry Brown was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next—as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope—and help—came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape!
In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
Time line. Bibliography. Illustrator’s note. “A Note on Numbers and Language.” Full-color mixed media illustrations.
ISBN: 9780763691561
JLG Release: Jun 2020
Awards & Honors
2021 Newbery Medal Honor Book
Praise & Reviews
Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:
Publishers Weekly*, School Library Journal*
School Library Journal
Book Details
ISBN
9780763691561
First Release
June 2020
Genre
Nonfic
Dewey Classification
B
Trim Size
9" x 10 1/2"
Page Count
56
Accelerated Reader
Level 5.3; Points: 0.5;
Scholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Candlewick
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Social Issue: Slavery in Historical Context
Topics
Henry “Box” Brown (1816–1897), African Americans, Slavery, Nineteenth-century US history, Abolitionism, Underground Railroad,