Cover image for 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:
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
ISBN:
9780590430272
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. Scholastic Books 1994