Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

by Barbara Herkert

Book Overview

An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385754620
• ISBN13: 9780385754620
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.7" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3