Summary
Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison. Full description
Series: Incredible lives for young readers
A bird or two: a story about Henri Matisse
A river of words: the story of William Carlos Williams
Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
The fantastic jungles of Henri Rousseau
The right word: Roget and his thesaurus
Fur, fins, and feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the invention of the modern zoo
Only Margaret: a story about Margaret Wise Brown
Friend of numbers: the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan