My Chapter 16 Q&A with Rita Lorraine Hubbard

h1 January 7th, 2020 by jules


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Over at Tennessee’s Chapter 16, I’ve a Q&A with author Rita Lorraine Hubbard about her picture book biography, The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Schwartz & Wade, January 2020), illustrated by Oge Mora.

That Q&A is here.

And here at 7-Imp today, I’m including some of Mora’s illustrations from the book.

Enjoy!



“On Sundays she would sit in the congregation, and as the preacher spoke,
she would clutch her family Bible — the Bible she still couldn’t read.”

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“For the next year and more,
Mary put everything she had into learning to read. …”

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“Then Mary would stand on her old, old legs, clear her old, old throat,
and read from her Bible or her schoolbook in a voice that was clear and strong.”

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THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ. Text copyright © 2020 by Rita Lorraine Hubbard. Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Oge Mora and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, New York.





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