A Place Called Freedom {affiliate links} is one of those books that left us adults with almost as many questions as the kids. It’s a story of a family of slaves who are set free. They travel North to Indiana, as time passes the father goes back down several times to get more of their family, aunts, uncles, cousins, and eventually a town is founded there.
It’s got an almost lyrical quality in the writing, and we all really enjoyed it. The adults were left wondering did he go down and help them escape to freedom, or did he slowly buy their freedom?
Either way, it’s a good book. In the end, they name the new town they’ve created “Freedom,” so of course we had to draw our own idea of FREEDOM.
We tried to mimic the illustration style of the book, which looked to me to be a fun combination of watercolors and colored pencil. I wasn’t quite sure if it was watercolor pencils, it seemed slightly different.
This is Princess before spilling the entire cup of water on herself…… Sigh….. She got to spend the rest of the time in a swim suit.
I love Superman’s expression in this picture. The picture next to his is Batman’s illustration, he apparently had trains on his mind, or was remembering the scene in the book with trains. The bottom right is Princess’, I think those are flowers, but aren’t they pretty?
[…] A Place Called Freedom by Scott Sanders – American Civil War This is the story of how a man and his family left Tennessee for Indiana and start a community of freed slaved in a placed called Freedom. You can get a free study guide at Adventures in Mommydom. […]