Picture books by Lesa feature people and their experiences in specific historical moments in time.
And today, they are an award-winning creative team. One day, her illustrator husband James Cline-Ransome encouraged her to write stories for kids. But along the way, she changed her mind and became a teacher and a copywriter in advertising. She did enjoy uncovering stories and wanted to become an investigative journalist. However, she did not enjoy reading about history in school because the subject was not presented in an interesting way. Here are three things you can learn from Lesa Cline-Ransome.Īs a child, Lesa Cline-Ransome loved to read and write. Dawson, our author studies focus on a few elements from our Superstar Speakers and what you can learn from their work before the big online conference on October 3, 2020. Today we continue our 2020 Author Study series! Our first 2020 Author Study put the spotlight on author-illustrator Sophie Blackall. An American Library Association Notable Children's Book A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Selection Named a Best Picture Book by the African American Children's Book Project A Booklist Editor's Choice Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Three Things You Can Learn from this Nonfiction Expert Overground Railroad is, as Lesa notes, a story of people who were running from and running to at the same time, and it's a story that will stay with readers long after the final pages. James Ransome's mixed-media illustrations are full of bold color and texture, bringing Ruth Ellen's journey to life, from sprawling cotton fields to cramped train cars, the wary glances of other passengers and the dark forest through which Frederick Douglass traveled towards freedom. As they travel, Ruth Ellen reads from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, reflecting on how her journey mirrors her own- until finally the train arrives at its last stop, New York's Penn Station, and the family heads out into a night filled with bright lights, glimmering stars, and new possiblity. Each leg of the trip brings new revelations as scenes out the window of folks working in fields give way to the Delaware River, the curtain that separates the colored car is removed, and glimpses of the freedom and opportunity the family hopes to find come into view. Stop by stop, the perceptive young narrator tells her journey in poems, leaving behind the cotton fields and distant Blue Ridge mountains. Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth Ellen embarks upon a journey toward a new life up North- one she can't begin to imagine.
A window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.
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