All Different Now Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom [Hardcover]

Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.

Through the eyes of one little girl,All Different Nowtells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since then, the observance of June 19 as African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. This stunning picture book includes notes from the author and illustrator, a timeline of important dates, and a glossary of relevant terms.

Told in Angela Johnson’s signature melodic style and brought to life by E.B. Lewis’s striking paintings,All Different Nowis a joyous portrait of the dawn breaking on the darkest time in our nation’s history.Angela Johnson has won three Coretta Scott King Awards, one each for her novelsThe First Part Last,Heaven, andToning the Sweep.The First Part Lastwas also the recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award. She is also the author of the novelsLooking for RedandA Certain October. Her books for younger readers include the Coretta Scott King Honor BookWhen I Am Old with You, illustrated by David Soman;Wind FlyersandI Dream of Trains, both illustrated by Loren Long; andLottie Paris Lives Hereand its sequelLottie Paris and the Best Place, both illustrated by Scott M. Fischer. Additional picture books include A Sweet Smell of Roses,Just Like Josh Gibson,The Day Ray Got Away, andAll Different Now. In recognition of her outstanding talent, Angela was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Kent, Ohio. Visit her at AJohnsonAuthor.com.

E.B. Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald, which was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, and This Little Light of Mine. lÓ)