Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L McKissack; illustrated by John Thompson.

Title
: 
Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L McKissack; illustrated by John Thompson.

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Patricia C. McKissack

Year Published
: 
1994

Physical Description
: 
68 p. ; ill. ; 29 cm.

Note
: 
Compares and contrasts how Christmas was celebrated in a big plantation house and in the the slave quarters in the period just before the Civil War.

Awards
: 
Coretta Scott King Award, 1995

Subject
: 
Christmas - United States.
 
Slaves - Social life and customs.

Added Author
: 
McKissack, Fredrick L.
 
Thompson, John, ill.

ISBN
: 
9780590430272

Publisher
: 
New York, N.Y. Scholastic Books 1994


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Lymburn975.03 MCKBook30269000089792Non-Fiction