Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Picture book · ages 8–12 · 620L (~3rd grade) · 56 pages · 2020
Why we'd hand it over
Weatherford's verse and Shadra Strickland's starkly beautiful collage transforms a true escape narrative into unforgettable meditation on embodied courage—the fear is real, the triumph is earned, and kids remember it.