Harriet Tubman by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara

She is a wonderful human being, and this book will surely help others see this. Harriet is a revolutionist - she is a first wave supporter of equal gender rights. Harriet demanded that African Americans have equal rights to white people. This was a fantastic choice by the author/illustrator. I believe that simple illustrations are best in explaining a complex concept like slavery and its abolition to children. She helped so many people get to the North. She meets people who are against slavery. She changed her name to Harriet so that she would not be traced. What I really love about this picture book is that it doesn't suger coat childhood - it shows how bad a childhood can be because of external circumstances - and this is something kids needs to understand.īut Minty stands up for herself and wishes to go to the North where slavery has been abolished. Minty goes through horrific experiences - her sisters get sold and she gets beaten every other day.

This book is also a fantastic book for explaining the concept of slavery to young children in a simple yet understandable fashion. Harriet Tubman is a simply but evocatively illustrated piece about a little black girl born into slavery. Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for the preview copy from which I've selected a few pictures.

It's an important piece of American history and a story that young readers will understand and probably ask questions about! Meanwhile, parents and teachers may well learn something they didn't know either. She went on to protest for equal rights for African Americans, and her picture and name is supposed to go on a new $20 bill some day. Illustration of Harriet and people and soldiers cheering at the end of the Civil War Illustration of Harriet and some passengers, hiding quietly on their way to the NorthĪfter the Civil War began, she became a nurse and a spy until, finally, slavery was abolished! She took hundreds of 'passengers' to the North for eight years, never losing a single one. Illustration of Minty/Harriet with her lantern, leading people from the South to the North at night.

She joined the 'underground railroad', the network of safe houses, and returned to the South to bring her brothers and sisters and other slaves north to freedom. She decided to travel to the North, hiding and changing her name to Harriet Tubman so she wouldn't be found. Illustration of Minty and her parents watching the other children being taken away on a cart with sacks of cotton. Slaves were bought and sold like property and treated worse than most of us would treat our pets. Vivid illustrations accompany the simple, important story of Harriet Tubman, born as a slave named Araminta 'Minty' Ross on a plantation in Maryland. Minty and her parents wondered if they would ever see them again.' 'And one day, Minty’s owners sold three of her sisters.

Harriet Tubman by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara