Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer (On My Own Biography) - Softcover

Lowery, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575054167 ISBN 13: 9781575054162

Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™, 2000

Synopsis

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as "Aunt" Clara Brown.

About this title

About the Author:

Janice Lee Porter was born and raised in Chicago. She has a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from California State University, Chico. She is the illustrator of over two dozen children's books and is an art faculty member at Shasta College in Redding, California, where she teaches painting and drawing. She lives in Chico, California.

From Library Journal:

Grade 2-3-Clara, a freed slave, traveled west where she helped others build new lives and tirelessly searched for her daughter, who was sold as a child. Powerful primitive paintings in earth tones illustrate this triumphant, easy-to-read biography. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1575054167
• ISBN 13: 9781575054162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Porter Janice Lee