Menu
These Hands Book Cover Enlarge Book Cover

These Hands

By Margaret H. Mason, Floyd Cooper

Formats:

Hardcover
eBook Paperback
Amazon Indigo
View More Retailers
Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched by the hands of the African Americans who worked there.In this powerful intergenerational story, Joseph learns that people joined their hands together to fight discrimination so that one day, their hands—Joseph’s hands—could do anything at all in this whole wide world.
ISBN: 9780547215662
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Mar 7, 2011
List price: $24.99
No of pages: 32
Trim Size: 8.890 in (w) x 11.290 in (h) x 0.380 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / African American & Black
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century

Margaret H. Mason

Biography

Margaret H. Mason lives in Ferndale, Michigan. She learned about the Detroit Wonder Bread factory’s discriminatory policies in the 50’s and 60’s from an old friend and Bakers Union stalwart whose voice still trembled 30 years later when he talked about the humiliation he and his co-workers endured in the past.

Floyd Cooper

Biography

The illustrator of more than sixty children’s books, Floyd Cooper is a past recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and a four-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. Visit his website at www.floydcooper.com.

Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched by the hands of the African Americans who worked there.In this powerful intergenerational story, Joseph learns that people joined their hands together to fight discrimination so that one day, their hands—Joseph’s hands—could do anything at all in this whole wide world.

ISBN: 9780547215662
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Mar 7, 2011
List price: $24.99
No of pages: 32
Trim Size: 8.890 in (w) x 11.290 in (h) x 0.380 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / African American & Black
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century

Margaret H. Mason

Biography

Margaret H. Mason lives in Ferndale, Michigan. She learned about the Detroit Wonder Bread factory's discriminatory policies in the 50's and 60's from an old friend and Bakers Union stalwart whose voice still trembled 30 years later when he talked about the humiliation he and his co-workers endured in the past.

Floyd Cooper

Biography

The illustrator of more than sixty children’s books, Floyd Cooper is a past recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and a four-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. Visit his website at www.floydcooper.com.