The Bell Rang

Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019...
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Author: James E. Ransome
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Bell Rang by Ransome, James E.

The Bell Rang

€30,19

The Bell Rang

€30,19
Author: James E. Ransome
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019

A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom in this brilliantly conceived picture book by Coretta Scott King Award winner James E. Ransome.

Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation rings the bell. Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Ben and the other slaves go out to work. Each day is the same. Full of grueling work and sweltering heat. Every day, except one, when the bell rings and Ben is nowhere to be found. Because Ben ran. Yet, despite their fear and sadness, his family remains hopeful that maybe, just maybe, he made it North. That he is free.

An ode to hope and a powerful tribute to the courage of those who ran for freedom, The Bell Rang is a stunning reminder that our past can never be forgotten.

Author: James E. Ransome
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 01/15/2019
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 11.20h x 10.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781442421134
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1.8
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501776 / Bell Rang


Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 01/29/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2018 pg. 102
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2018
Booklist 11/01/2018 pg. 55
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2018
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2019 pg. 82
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
James E. Ransome's highly acclaimed illustrations for The Bell Rang, which he also authored, received the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. His other award-winning titles include the Coretta Scott King winner The Creation; Coretta Scott King Honor Book Uncle Jed's Barbershop; Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt; Before She Was Harriet, and Let My People Go, winner of the NAACP Image Award. He frequently collaborates with his wife, author Lesa Cline-Ransome. One of their recent titles is Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams, which received four starred reviews and was an ALA Notable Children's Book. He lives in New York's Hudson River Valley region with his family. Visit James at JamesRansome.com.

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