Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge by Shepard, Ray Anthony

Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge

A powerful poem about Ona Judge's life and her self-emancipation from George Washington's household. Ona Judge was...
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Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
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Language: English
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Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge by Shepard, Ray Anthony

Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge

€26,95

Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge

€26,95
Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A powerful poem about Ona Judge's life and her self-emancipation from George Washington's household.

Ona Judge was enslaved by the Washingtons, and served the President's wife, Martha. Ona was widely known for her excellent skills as a seamstress, and was raised alongside Washington's grandchildren. Indeed, she was frequently mistaken for his granddaughter. This poetic biography follows her childhood and adolescence until she decides to run away.

Author Ray Anthony Shepard welcomes meaningful and necessary conversation among young readers about the horrors of slavery and the experience of house servants through call-and-response style lines. Illustrator Keith Mallett's rich paintings include fabric collage and add further feeling and majesty to Ona's daring escape.

With extensive backmatter, this poem may serve as a new introduction to American slavery and Ona Judge's legacy.

Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780374307042
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 514465 / Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge


Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2020
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
Booklist 12/01/2020 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 12/07/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2021 pg. 127

About the Author

Ray Anthony Shepard is a former teacher and retired editor-in-chief of a major education publishing company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Education and the Harvard Graduate School Education where he received a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. His other books for children include Now or Never!: 54th Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery.

Keith Mallett
was born in Pennsylvania and received his formal art training at the Art Students League, and Hunter College in New York City. He has worked as a freelance artist for fifteen years and was the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers. He also illustrated How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz (Jonah Winter). Keith's work is currently published by Canadian Art Prints, one of the largest fine art publishers in the world.


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