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Vision of Beauty
The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
By Lasky, Kathryn & Bennett, Nneka
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76360-253-6
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
Gr 2-4 Through a readable text and wonderful illustrations, Lasky brings to life one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the United States. The author's research is extremely thorough, including interviews with her subject's great-great granddaughter. The narrative traces Breedlove's girlhood as the first free-born child of former slaves in Louisiana to her hard life as a laundress and single mother in St. Louis. The text explains that her interest in na...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
