Full name: All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

Author: Angela Johnson Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780689873768 068987376X

Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis. Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since then, the observance of June 19 as African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. This stunning picture book includes notes from the author and illustrator, a timeline of important dates, and a glossary of relevant terms. Told in Angela Johnson's signature melodic style and brought to life by E.B. Lewis's striking paintings, All Different Now is a joyous portrait of the dawn breaking on the darkest time in our nation's history. Similar books: A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson Wind Flyers by Angela Johnson Hope's Gift by Kelly Starling Lyons Most Loved in All the World by Tonya C. Hegamin Underground by Shane W. Evans January's Sparrow by Patricia Polacco The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift Imogene's Last Stand by Candace Fleming Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller Crow Call by Lois Lowry The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson A Place Called Freedom by Scott Russell Sanders Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson The Golly Sisters Go West by Betsy Byars The Granddaughter Necklace by Sharon Dennis Wyeth Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson The Leaving Morning by Angela Johnson