Moses by Carole B. Weatherford The book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. by Carole Boston Weatherford, should be on everyone’s reading list. Harriet Tubman was so brave to try to run away from slavery all alone. But she wasn’t all alone, because God was with her. She could talk to God when she was afraid and God always answered with words that helped her to be strong. She was helped along the way by Christian people, especially from
by Deborah Hopkinson, il. by James Ransome One of my favorite children’s picture books is Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Clara, a very young slave girl was separated from her family and sold to another plantation to work in the fields. She learned to sew and used her talent to create a quilt that helped many slaves escape to freedom. I feel a connection to Clara with my vision for Bible quilts for children’s beds. Just as Clara’s quilt pointed
