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Ellen’s Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons and Illustrated by Daniel Minter

October 8, 2012 by The Picture Book Review

  I really like this book.  My son also really enjoyed this book.  He asked me to read it to him twice. This book is about a girl who’s parents were unable to get married before because of laws discriminating against them.  However, now that slavery has been abolished, her parents can be legally married.  On the day that her parents go to the Freedman’s Bureau to be recorded as being married, they bring along a broom.  The broom was […]

Categories: Recommended Picture Books • Tags: Armchair Cybils, Cybils Nominated, Daniel Minter, Kelly Starling Lyons

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