From now through the end of February, in honor of Black History Month, the paperback version of Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux is $4.09 at Amazon (or get the Kindle ebook for $2.99). “Oscar’s Gift is a fine and much recommended pick for community library youth fiction collections.” ~ Midwest Book Review “Lisa Rivero, a native …
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 26 Books Published in the Early 1900s “The lid came off with a loud creak and a small cloud of dust and packing straw. Inside were books. More books than I had ever seen in one place. More books than I had seen even in a school.” ~ Oscar’s Gift …
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 24 Life and Learning in a One-Room Country School “We continued walking. Winona looked straight ahead, her face as still as stone. Chumani glanced nervously between me and Winona. When we rounded a hill and saw the school house, both girls stopped.” Oscar’s Gift The above photos give an idea …
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 23 Milkweed and Spiderweb Cures “Mama used her fingers to form some of the spider webs into a soft bandage. She placed this web bandage on the milkweed sap. She used another clean cloth to wrap around Oscar’s forehead again.” ~ Oscar’s Gift Homesteaders like Tomas’s family often had to …
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 22 Ragged, Jagged Jack and the Problem of Stereotypes “Oscar did not dance with the adults. He entertained the children, who were in the corner of the barn opposite the fiddlers. He sang a song called ‘Any Rags?’ and danced while he sang. ‘Did you ever hear the story of …