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    Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
    Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
    Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
    Audiobook37 minutes

    Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

    Written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Michele Wood

    Narrated by Dion Graham

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    About this audiobook

    This moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom follows the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9781666550047
    Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
    Author

    Carole Boston Weatherford

    Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of numerous award-winning books. Her picture book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood received a Newbery Honor. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by the late Floyd Cooper, was a National Book Award longlist title, won the Coretta Scott King Award for author and illustrator, and received a Caldecott Honor and a Sibert Honor. She is dedicated to writing poetry for children and is the 2025 and 2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate. When she's not traveling or visiting museums, Carole is mining the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles. She lives in North Carolina.

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