My First Biography: Harriet Tubman
Not only is it easy to read but the plain prose adds to the elemental escape-and-rescue drama in this My First Biography title: �To be a slave meant that someone else owned you. That person could make you work very, very hard. That person could even sell you like a sack of potatoes. Harriet didn�t want to be a slave. She wanted to be free.� With just one or two sentences on each double-page spread, the book also features illustrations that show the brave young runaway following the North Star, hiding with help until �at last she was free,� and then returning so many times to rescue those left behind. The text also mentions her role as a spy during the Civil War. Great for reading aloud as well as for young kids to read on their own, the tense accounts of Tubman�s life, �always hiding, always moving at night,� will drive readers to find out more about the Underground Railroad. Preschool-Grade 2. --Hazel Rochman