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December 27, 2012 | Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up
A poignant story celebrating the 150th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation
Reading level: Ages 6 and up
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile (December 27, 2012)
It’s 1862 and the Civil War has turned out to be a long, deadly conflict.
Hope’s father can’t stand the waiting a minute longer and decides to
join the Union army to fight for freedom. He slips away one tearful
night, leaving Hope, who knows she may never see her father again,
with only a conch shell for comfort. Its sound, Papa says, echoes the
promised song of freedom. It’s a long wait for freedom and on the
nights when the cannons roar, Papa seems farther away than ever.
But then Lincoln finally does it: on January 1, 1863, he issues the

2. Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves, and a joyful Hope
finally spies the outline of a familiar man standing on the horizon.
TEA CAKES FOR TOSH
By Kelly Starling Lyons (Author) , E.B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Age Range: 4 - 7

3. EACH KINDNESS
By Jacqueline Woodson (Author) , E.B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Age Range: 5 - 8
Pub Date: Oct. 2nd, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-399-24652-4
Page count: 32pp
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
UNDER THE BAOBAB TREE
By Julie Stiegemeyer (Author) , E.B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Age Range: 4 - 8
A brother and sister travel to a special gathering under a gigantic baobab tree in
this quiet, beautifully illustrated story set in a rural area of an unnamed African
country.
Pub Date: May 1st, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-310-72561-9
Page count: 32pp
Publisher: Zonderkidz