Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist

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Sewing stories : Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist

Title remainder

Harriet Powers' journey from slave to artist

Statement of responsibility

by Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Title variation

Sewing stories

Title variation remainder

Harriet Powers journey from slave to artist

Creator

• trueHerkert, Barbara
• Herkert, Barbara

Contributor

• Brantley-Newton, Vanessa
• trueBrantley-Newton, Vanessa

Author

• Herkert, Barbara

Illustrator

• Brantley-Newton, Vanessa

Subject

• African American quiltmakers -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature
• trueAfrican American quilts
• African American quilts
• African American quilts -- Juvenile literature
• trueAfrican American women -- Georgia
• African American women -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature
• trueAfrican Americans
• trueArt and music -- Arts and crafts | Needlework
• trueBiographies
• Biographies
• trueBiographies -- Arts | Visual arts
• trueBiographies -- Identity | Africans and African Americans
• trueCulture and customs -- African Americans
• trueGeorgia
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• Powers, Harriet, 1837-1910
• Powers, Harriet, 1837-1910 -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• truePowers, Harriet, 1837-1911
• trueQuiltmakers
• trueQuilts
• truePatchwork
• trueAfrican American quiltmakers
• African American quiltmakers -- Georgia

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• trueBiography
• trueCulture and customs
• trueBiographies
• trueArt and music

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Illustration

• trueColorful

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 746.46092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Ages 5-8
• AD 850

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

NK9112

LC item number

.H467 2015

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

850

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 0
• 3

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

primary