Holly Berry, you got my attention for a second, but appears its not MY oscar winning Halle.
Chris, I just got hold of Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom, by Tim Tingle (Cinco Puntos Press). I'll let you know if this one might be a good one--haven't read it yet. It's about Choctaws and escaped slaves in Miss.
Might I suggest Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, with illustrations by Hudson Talbott? It's not strictly Civil War, but tells the story of quilting used to "show the way"... and how that tradition is passed down up until today. Newberry Honor book, I believe.
I should start making a file of your book title suggestions to filch for when we get up there : )
I have a couple of Bob the Builder types too, so with that in mind, here are a few picture books for the time period:
"Mike Fink" retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg
"Paul Bunyan" retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg
"Pony Express!" by Steven Kroll
"John Henry: An American Legend" written and illustrted by Ezra Jack Keats
"Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi" written and illustrated by Cheryl Harness (about riverboats)
"Boss of the Plains: The Hat that Won the West" by Laurie Carlson
"The Buffalo Nickel" by Taylor Morrison
"Araminta's Paint Box" by Karen Ackerman
"Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush" by Rosalyn Schanzer
And I'm a sucker for the HarperCollins / Harper & Row History I Can Read series, which has lots of good things for the 19th century -- "Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express" by Eleanor Coerr, "The Josefina Story Quilt" by Coerr, "The Long Way Westward," etc.
Um, that wasn't just a few, was it? Sorry! I get carried away. Off to read to my 5yo about electricity...
Sorry to disappoint, Don.
Thanks, Susan, Greg and especially Becky. I've heard good things about Crossing Bok Chitto and Show Way, and I loved American tall tales when I was a boy -- I can't wait to give all these a try.
Darn....I missed this way back when but if you cross that time period again might I suggest my new (this year) Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom? It's a Millbrook - On My Own History book.
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