Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the history of the American abolitionist movement.

This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Abraham Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals and worked alongside each other for a common goal.

Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier, the acclaimed team behind Rosa, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor book, join forces once more to portray this historic friendship at a unique moment in time.

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Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the history of the American abolitionist movement.

This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Abraham Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals and worked alongside each other for a common goal.

Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier, the acclaimed team behind Rosa, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor book, join forces once more to portray this historic friendship at a unique moment in time.

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Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

Overview

Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the history of the American abolitionist movement.

This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Abraham Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals and worked alongside each other for a common goal.

Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier, the acclaimed team behind Rosa, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor book, join forces once more to portray this historic friendship at a unique moment in time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250018694
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 01/08/2013
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 40
Sales rank: 1,000,530
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range: 6 - 11 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English."  She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America’s most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five “Living Legends.” Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Bryan Collier is the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner of numerous children's books, including Rosa and Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When he's not painting, he spends his time visiting schools and encouraging young artists and readers. Bryan lives in New York with his wife and daughter. www.bryancollier.com

Reading Group Guide

Discussion Questions

1. Read the author's note. Do you think people act out of fear or do you, like Nikki Giovanni, agree that people act out of respect? Give examples that explain your answer.

2. What topic did Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, disagree on? How do you think this might have affected their family life?

3. How does the author play with time in the book? Why do you think she made that choice? What are we able to learn because of the change?

4. Why did Lincoln walk five miles back to the store? What does this act show us about his personality?

5. Douglass dreamed of setting sail on the ships he worked on in Baltimore. Why? What do you dream about for your own future?

6. What are some things you do that are similar to Lincoln's and Douglass's activities? What does it mean to "better themselves"? How can you better yourself?

7. What do you think Lincoln saw in New Orleans that opened his eyes? Why do you think the illustrator added the faces to the trees?

8. Lincoln and Douglass's friendship bloomed based on what three important things? What three characteristics do you want in a friend? How can our friendships change us as people?

9. Describe John Brown's plan in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. How did the expansion of slavery make it hard for everyday northern farmers to make a living?

10. Explain how the South knew "there would be no compromise on the issue of slavery" if Lincoln was elected. How did this turn out to be true? What resulted?

11. Why was there a misunderstanding at the inaugural reception? What did Douglass refuse to do? Would you refuse the same injustice?

12. Which illustration in the book is your favorite? Why? Why do you think Bryan Collier used the palette of colors that he did? Why do you think the page depicting the Civil War was created without any words?
13. Study the timeline of Lincoln's and Douglass's lives. What is the most interesting fact that you learned from this page? Create a timeline of one of your most important friendships.

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