Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
(Wonderbook)

Print book published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.

Audiobook originally released by Dreamscape Media.

This audio-enabled WONDERBOOK has an audio reader with complete narration permanently attached inside the front cover. This unique new book format delivers a complete audio narration directly from the printed book. Simply open the book, push the PLAY button and listen from beginning to end.

Audio media player, permanently affixed to inside front cover of book, includes built-in speaker, earphone jack, and rechargeable battery.

Powered by a rechargeable battery; USB charger required for recharging.

Audiobook player has 2 modes. Read-Along mode narrates the story. Learning mode asks questions related to the story.

Includes bibliographical references.

[Read by Dion Graham.]

"'What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me.' Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box; he 'entered the world a slave.' He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom."--,Provided by publisher

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