Juneteenth Jamboree

By Carole Boston Weatherford, Yvonne Buchanan
Paperback: $11.95

A young girl, who has just moved to her parents’ hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth.

Front cover for ¡Celebremos Juneteenth! by Carole Boston Weatherford and Yvonne Buchanan
This book is also available in Spanish
¡Celebremos Juneteenth!
By Carole Boston Weatherford, Yvonne Buchanan

Description

It’s a fine day in June. Cassandra’s family has just moved from the city back to her parents’ hometown in Texas. Cassie likes her new house, and her new school is okay, but Texas doesn’t quite feel like home yet.

What Cassie doesn’t know is that her family has a surprise for her – a Texas tradition. As she helps prepare red velvet cake, fried chicken, and piles of other dishes, she wonders what makes June 19th so important. It isn’t until Cassie and her family arrive downtown that she discovers what the commotion is about. And, in the process, she realizes that she and her family have indeed come home.

With text and illustrations as warm as a summer day, author Carole Boston Weatherford and artist Yvonne Buchanan bring the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth to life for children. Readers of all ages will delight in this declaration of freedom and homecoming.

About the Creators

Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is a poet and writer of numerous children's books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Dear Mrs. Rosenwald, The Sound That Jazz Makes, and Lee & Low's Jazz Baby and Juneteenth Jamboree. She is a contributing poet to In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall, also published by Lee & Low Books. Weatherford was an NAACP Image Award finalist for her book The Sound That Jazz Makes. She lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband and their children.

Yvonne Buchanan

Yvonne Buchanan is a versatile artist whose political illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She also created the award-winning animated children's video, Follow the Drinking Gourd: The Story of the Underground Railroad. Buchanan lives in Syracuse, New York.

Reviews

  • "Weatherford does an excellent job of explaining what this holiday is, and what it means to African Americans. Buchanan's pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations add a joyous and celebratory touch. . . A wonderful way to introduce this unique holiday."

    - School Library Journal
  • "Enthusiastic text allows readers to discover-and celebrate-the holiday along with Cassandra. But the larger treat is newcomer Buchanan's loose pen-and-ink and watercolor art. Festive and full of mirth, her fluid, motion-packed lines put a visible spring in her characters' steps, and her palette is as summery as lemonade and blue skies."

    - Publishers Weekly
  • "This touching story's factual information is enlivened with unforced family warmth and bustle. The festive mood carries over to the bouncy watercolor illustrations."

    - Parenting Magazine

Paperback

  • ISBN 9781600602481
  • Price $11.95
  • Publication Date Oct 01, 1995
  • Trim Size 10 × 8 × 1 in
  • Weight 0.3125 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 1280
  • Interests

  • Imprint Lee & Low Books
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Holidays & Celebrations / Other, Non-Religious
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / People & Places / United States / African American
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Social Themes / New Experience
  • Themes African / African American / Black, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Collaboration, Cultural Diversity, Families, Fiction, Food, Gratitude, History & Civics, Holidays / Traditions, Home, Optimism / Enthusiasm, Overcoming Obstacles, Pride, Realistic Fiction, Sharing & Giving, Slavery, United States History
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 6 - 10
  • Grade Range Grades 1 - 5
  • Guided Reading O
  • ATOS Book Level 3.6
  • DRA 34
  • Interest Level Grades 1 - 5
  • Lexile Level 650
  • Reading Level 3
  • SRC 4.2
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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