Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge

Shepard, Ray Anthony

ISBN 10: 0374307040 / ISBN 13: 9780374307042

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (edition ), 2021

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (edition )
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374307040
• ISBN 13: 9780374307042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Mallett, Keith
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

A powerful poem about Ona Judge's life and her self-emancipation from George Washington’s household.

Ona Judge was enslaved by the Washingtons, and served the President's wife, Martha. Ona was widely known for her excellent skills as a seamstress, and was raised alongside Washington’s grandchildren. Indeed, she was frequently mistaken for his granddaughter. This poetic biography follows her childhood and adolescence until she decides to run away.

Author Ray Anthony Shepard welcomes meaningful and necessary conversation among young readers about the horrors of slavery and the experience of house servants through call-and-response style lines. Illustrator Keith Mallett’s rich paintings include fabric collage and add further feeling and majesty to Ona’s daring escape.

With extensive backmatter, this poem may serve as a new introduction to American slavery and Ona Judge's legacy.

About the Authors

Ray Anthony Shepard is a former teacher and retired editor-in-chief of a major education publishing company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Education and the Harvard Graduate School Education where he received a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. His books for children include Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery and Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge.

Keith Mallett has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. As an artist and designer he has created posters and fine art prints for over thirty years. He lives in San Diego with his wife Dianne and his German Shepherd Pi. How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz was his first children's book.