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WORDS SET ME FREE: THE STORY OF YOUNG FREDERICK DOUGLASS Lesa Cline-Ransome (B.F.A. ’87) and James Ransome (B.F.A. ’87) $16. 99 (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
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The eighth collaboration of a husband-and-wife team who met during their sophomore year at Pratt, this children’s book creates a powerful biographical account of the antislavery crusader, writer, and orator’s early life based on his memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Award-winning illustrator James Ransome’s acrylic and oil paintings give a vivid depiction of plantation life as author Lesa Cline-Ransome describes the inhuman treatment of slaves that impelled Douglass to achieve literacy, an important step toward achieving freedom and promoting abolition. Available at bookstores.
MY FIRST FARM FRIENDS: BOOKS IN A BARN Elizabeth "Betsy" Wallin, A.O.S. Illustration ’10 $18.95 (Storey Publishing, 2011) The Paris-based painter presents four playfully illustrated board books packaged in a deluxe gift box that doubles as a play barn after the books are unpacked. Each book depicts daily life with one of four farm animals and ends with the animals curling up together back in the barn, coop, or shed, making these books the perfect bedtime stories for children. The book set received rave reviews from The New York Times and Publisher's Weekly. Available at bookstores.
THE LITTLE BITTY BAKERY Betsy Lewin, B.F.A. Graphic Arts ’59 $16.99 (Disney-Hyperion Books, 2011) Written by Leslie Muir and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Betsy Lewin, this read-aloud children’s book tells the rhyming tale of an elephant chef who, weary from a birthday spent making cookies and custard for the shop, goes to bed without any celebratory cake. So the chef’s kitchen mice pitch in to bake a surprise Crumble Jumble Cake, the recipe for which is given in the book so young readers (and their parents) can try it for themselves. Available at bookstores.
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