Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one. In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Taking with her only her faith, she must creep through woods with hounds at her feet, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in. I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free.īorn into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and bestselling artist Kadir Nelson offer a resounding, reverent tribute to Harriet Tubman, the woman who earned the name Moses for her heroic role in the Underground Railroad. A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner The intersections of her writing and research processes involving primary and secondary multimedia sources, , &.Her spiritual connection to Fannie Lou Hamer, &.The need to preserve Fannie Lou Hamer’s legacy.The connections between Voice of Freedom and her 2010 book, The Beatitudes.Her inspiration for writing Voice of Freedom.To find out more about Carole, access teaching guides and videos, and get to know her and her son, Jeffery, a poet, illustrator and co-creator of You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen (2016), visit. Gregory Christie, among many others.Ĭarole is currently a Professor of English at Fayetteville State University, where she works with current and future teachers as well as aspiring writers. Other critically acclaimed or award-winning nonfiction picturebooks include Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (2021), illustrated by Floyd Cooper and Freedom in Congo Square (2016), illustrated by R. These two picturebook biographies follow a legacy of award-winning biographies, such as Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2006), illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Becoming Billie Holiday (2008), illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library (2015), illustrated by Eric Velasquez, and Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America (2015), illustrated by Jamey Christoph. Her most recent picturebook biographies in verse are the 2021 Newbery Honor, BOX (2020), illustrated by Michele Wood, and the 2021 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul(2020), illustrated by Frank Morrison.
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