Digging a Hole to Heaven

S. D. Nelson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

64 Seiten

2014
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Verlag)
978-1-4197-0730-8 (ISBN)

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The only picture book on the topic of child labour in the mining industry that mixes archival images and original artwork.

At 12 years old, Conall has already worked in the coal mines of West Virginia for two years. He spends his days deep underground with his faithful mule, Angel, carting loads of coal back and forth between the coal seams and the main shaft, where elevators take the coal up to the surface. One day a tunnel collapses, and his brother is trapped with others on the wrong side! How can Conall and Angel help to save them?Mixing archival images with his original artwork, in this historical fiction picture book acclaimed author and illustrator S. D. Nelson gives voice to the poverty, grueling labor, and dangerous conditions experienced by child laborers across our nation in the past, echoing conditions today, especially for migrant fieldworkers.Praise for Digging a Hole to Heaven "Nelson’s acrylic-paint illustrations are gritty and realistic; more evocative still are the historical photographs that appear on nearly every page. A useful and thorough piece of work combining fiction and nonfiction, with an extensive author’s note detailing the history of coal mining." --Kirkus Reviews

S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas. He is the award-winning author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including Black Elk’s Vision, Gift Horse, Coyote Christmas and The Star People.

Zusatzinfo	Full-colour illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	262 x 262 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Bilderbücher
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-4197-0730-2 / 1419707302
ISBN-13	978-1-4197-0730-8 / 9781419707308
Zustand	Neuware