Review of the Day: Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

Overground Railroad
By Lesa Cline-Ransome
Illustrated by James Ransome
Holiday House
$18.99
ISBN: 978-0-8234-3873-0
Ages 4-7
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The standard joke amongst children’s librarians is that we learn most of our American history through children’s books. But of course the unspoken suggestion there is that this is history we never learned in school. Now I don’t care how amazing your education was in the 1980s. Pretty much I can guarantee that unless you were part of the slightest sliver of...