Author: Joyce Carol Thomas
Title: I Have Heard of a Land
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Children Book, Historical Fiction
Theme: Life as a African American frontiers woman.
Primary and Secondary characters: African American frontiers woman.
Awards and date of publication: Coretta Scott King Award: 1998
Publishing Company: Joanna Cotler Books
This book is about all African American frontier women, when they settled into the West. This book is about the aspirations they had about their new found freedom and land. These women were finally going to be free to own their own land, crop their own crops, and to do whatever they want on their land. These women had to just claim their land, have their neighbors help them build their log cabins and then live free, just as free and any white man. This books explains the freedom and aspirations of these frontier women. For so many years they were owned by someone else, and now they are finally able to own their own piece of happiness!
This book is a good book to talk to students about life after slavery, and how much freedom and happiness these frontier women must have had. This book looks at frontiers not just in the eyes of white Caucasian men, but in the eyes of African American women.
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