Follow the drinking gourd /

Winter, Jeanette.

Follow the drinking gourd / story and pictures by Jeanette Winter. - 1st Dragonfly book ed. - New York : Knopf, 1992, c1988. - [48] p. : col. illus. ; 26 x 28 cm.

Children's Catalog (Wilson). Booklist Editors' (Reviewers') Choice. Child Study Children's Book Committee.

By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

3.9 Spache Formula.

0679819975




Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Underground railroad--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.

PZ 7.W7547 / Fo 1988

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