From Weasels to Fake Mustaches! From picture books to non-fiction!
News books are flying off the shelves at EMES.
One book that I was able to quickly read before a reader whisked it away, is Africa is My Home: A Child of the Amistad written by Monica Edinger and illustrated by Robert Byrd. Africa is My Home is a fictionalized first-person account of a real person known.. The book recounts the experiences of a girl who was captured by slavers in Africa in 1839 and after a harrowing journey across the ocean sold in Cuba where she boarded the ship Amistad. The Africans on the Amistad revolted and took command of the ship, but the men and 4 children who survived the revolt were captured and tried in America. Africa is My Home tells the story of the Africans aboard the Amistad and their experiences in a foreign land, their trials in the United States, their education, and their never ceasing quest to return to their home from the point of view of the child who became known as Sarah Magru Kinson. In addition to the beautiful illustrations by Robert Byrd, the book includes some archival images and quotes from newspapers about the Amistad and the trials that followed.
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