Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry Cole2012
This wordless picture book tells a powerful story of the underground railroad.
A young farm girl finds a runaway slave hiding in her families barn. She struggles with doing the right thing and making a hard choice of whether to help the runaway or tell on him.
Henry Cole tells a powerful story through the pictures of how a simple farm girl helps a runaway slave. The pictures touch on how the girl struggles to make the decision to help or not to help, knowing that it is against the law. Cole shows the compassion of the girl through the emotion shown in the illustrations. Its will truly touch your heart and how it must have felt for these two young children who were so different, yet so much the same.
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