[ 책 소개 ]

* Caldecott Honor 수상도서
* ALA Notable Book for Middle Readers
* CCBC Choices, Historical Places, People, and Events
* IRA Teachers ' Choices, Primary
* NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
* Booklist Editor 's Choice
* Booklist Top 10 Black History for Youth
* The Bulletin of the Center for Children 's Books, Bulletin Blue Ribbons
* Junior Library Guild Selection


미국에서 최고의 어린이 그림책에 수여하는 Caldecott상을 받았으며, 국내에서는 "헨리의 자유상자"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작그림책입니다.

미국이 노예제도를 인정하자는 남부와 폐지하자는 북부로 갈라져 오랜 시간 정치적 싸움을 하던 당시, 남부에 살던 많은 노예들이 자유를 갈망하며 기차와 배를 이용해 탈출을 시도했습니다. 북부에서는 이런 탈출을 몰래 도왔고, ‘지하 철도’ 역시 그들을 돕는 비밀 조직 가운데 하나였습니다. 지하 철도 조직은 실제로 지하에 철도를 만든 게 아니라 어둠 속에서 비밀스럽게 일을 처리했고, 조직 활동을 이야기할 때 철도 용어를 그들식으로 바꾸어 사용하면서 그런 이름이 붙은 것입니다.

운송용 상자에 몸을 숨겨 탈출에 성공한 헨리 브라운도 지하 철도 조직의 도움을 받은 유명한 도망자 가운데 한 명입니다. 1815년에 태어난 헨리 브라운은 운송용 상자에 몸을 숨긴 채 필라델피아로 자신을 배달시켜 자유로운 삶을 얻게 됩니다. 헨리의 용기 있는 이 행동은 전세계를 놀라게 했고, 석판화 작품은 물론 그림책으로도 만들어졌습니다. 이 책은 자유를 찾아 목숨을 건 탈출을 한 용기 있는 헨리 브라운의 이야기를 통해 인권과 자유의 소중함에 대해 되짚어 보는 시간을 갖게 하는 책입니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Hardcover: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 043977733X
ISBN-13: 978-0439777339
책 크기: 28.6 cm x 23.8 cm



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Book Description
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.


School Library Journal
Inspired by an actual 1830s lithograph, this beautifully crafted picture book briefly relates the story of Henry "Box" Brown's daring escape from slavery. Torn from his mother as a child, and then forcibly separated from his wife and children as an adult, a heartsick and desperate Brown conspired with abolitionists and successfully traveled north to Philadelphia in a packing crate. His journey took just over one full day, during which he was often sideways or upside down in a wooden crate large enough to hold him, but small enough not to betray its contents. The story ends with a reimagining of the lithograph that inspired it, in which Henry Brown emerges from his unhappy confinement - in every sense of the word - and smiles upon his arrival in a comfortable Pennsylvania parlor. Particularly considering the broad scope of Levine's otherwise well-written story, some of the ancillary "facts" related in her text are unnecessarily dubious; reports vary, for instance, as to whether the man who sealed Henry into the crate was a doctor or a cobbler. And, while the text places Henry's arrival on March 30, other sources claim March 24 or 25. Nelson's illustrations, always powerful and nuanced, depict the evolution of a self-possessed child into a determined and fearless young man. While some of the specifics are unfortunately questionable, this book solidly conveys the generalities of Henry Brown's story.


Booklist *Starred Review*
Although the cover shows a young boy staring intently at the reader, this book is really about Henry Brown as an adult and a staggering decision he made to achieve freedom. Henry, born a slave, hears from his mother that leaves blowing in the wind "are torn from the trees like slave children are torn from their families." When his master grows ill, Henry hopes that he will be freed; instead, he is given to his master's son, and his life becomes worse. Eventually, Henry marries and has children; then his family is sold. With nothing left to lose, he asks a white abolitionist to pack him in a crate so he can be mailed to freedom. The journey is fraught with danger as he travels by train and then steamboat, but 27 hours later, he reaches Philadelphia. A brief author's note confirms the details of the story, but it's the dramatic artwork that brings the events emphatically to life. According to the flap copy, an antique lithograph of Brown inspired Nelson's paintings, which use crosshatched pencil lines layered with watercolors and oil paints. The technique adds a certain look of age to the art and also gives the pictures the heft they need to visualize Brown's life. Transcending technique is the humanity Nelson imbues in his characters, especially Brown and his mother--her dream of freedom deferred, his amazingly achieved. Ilene Cooper


Kirkus Review *Starred Review*
Nelson's powerful portraits add a majestic element to Levine's history-based tale of Henry “Box”
Brown, a slave who escaped by having himself mailed to freedom in a crate. Depicted as a solemn boy
with an arresting gaze on the cover, Henry displays riveting presence in every successive scene, as he
grows from child to adult, marries and is impelled to make his escape after seeing his beloved wife and
children sold to slaveowners. Related in measured, sonorous prose that makes a perfect match for the art,
this is a story of pride and ingenuity that will leave readers profoundly moved, especially those who may
have been tantalized by the entry on Brown in Virginia Hamilton's Many Thousand Gone: African
Americans from Slavery to Freedom (1993).