Kirkus awarded it a starred review, praising 'Nelson’s double-page, full-bleed paintings' that 'illuminate both the dire physical and transcendent spiritual journey' that Harriet endures. It has been awarded as a Caldecott Honor book and with the Coretta Scott King Award.Ī starred review in Publishers Weekly compliments the book's 'elegant design' and the illustration's 'intense portraits' and their ability to 'convey all the emotion of Tubman's monumental mission.' It also applauds the author for the way in which the text was framed, as 'an ongoing dialogue between Tubman and God.' Harriet ultimately escapes the brutal practice of forced servitude and then, after missing and thinking about her family, bravely returns to help many others make the same journey to find freedom. Along her tiring and long journey, she trusts people who could easily turn her in, sleeps in fear, and most importantly, relies on God. She takes nothing but her faith and travels through woods to safety. Harriet leaves her family and plantation behind, led by God, to find free land in the north. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom is an awarded picture book about Harriet Tubman, one of the most inspiring figures of the Underground Railroad. It has received both a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award. Courageous, compassionate, and deeply religious, Harriet Tubman, with her bravery and relentless pursuit of freedom, is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom is a 2006 children's picture book by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, originally published by Hyperion Books for Children. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but by product 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

Moses by carole boston weatherford