Christmas In The Big House
Subtitle: Christmas in the Quarters
Contributors: John Thompson (Illustrator)
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780590430289
Subjects: Holidays & Festivals - Christmas; Plantation life; History; Children's 9-12 - Picturebooks; Social conditions; Juvenile Nonfiction; Juvenile literature; Children: Grades 3-4; Holidays & Celebrations - Christmas; Juvenile Nonfiction / Holidays & Festivals / Christmas; 19th century; Slaves; Southern States; Holidays & Celebrations - Christmas & Advent; Christmas
First sentence: THE CROPS have been harvested and sold, and the fields laid by till spring; the days have grown shorter and cooler, and the nights come faster and last longer.