Washington Black Binding:Paperback Moth to a Flame

Moth to a Flame

This powerful and hopeful picture book--inspired by the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris--celebrates brown and Black girls and is magnificently illustrated by a Caldecott Honor-winning artist

"African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe

Practice freedom

Two pivotal moments

Washington Black Binding:Paperback Moth to a FlameMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." Vanity Fair Eleven year old George Washington Black or Wash a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns