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Additional authors

1. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa
2. Schomburg Children's Collection.

Description

1. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

1. "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 each square to illustrate Bible stories and local legends. She exhibited her quilts at local cotton fairs, and though she never traveled outside of Georgia, her quilts are now priceless examples of African American folk art."--Amazon.com.

Subject

1. Powers, Harriet, 1837-1910 -- Juvenile literature
2. African American quiltmakers -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature
3. African American quilts -- Juvenile literature
4. African American women -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature
5. Powers, Harriet, 1837-1910 -- Biography
6. African American quiltmakers -- Georgia
7. African American quilts
8. African American women -- Georgia

Call number

1. Sc F 16-523

Audience (note)

1. Ages 5-8.

Author

1. Herkert, Barbara, author.

Title

1. Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist / by Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.

Publisher

1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Audience

1. Ages 5-8.

Added author

1. Schomburg Children's Collection.
2. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa, illustrator.

LCCN

1. 2013037480

ISBN

1. 9780385754620 (hardcover)
2. 0385754620 (hardcover)
3. 9780385754637 (library binding)
4. 0385754639 (library binding)

Research call number

1. Sc F 16-523