Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. It was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2011 and received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators in 2012.“Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present”, American Library Association The book depicts a 19th-century African-American family of slaves as they escape from a plantation and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.
Awards and honors School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011“SLJ Best Books 2011 Nonfiction”, School Library Journal Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators (2012) American Library Association Notable Children's Books (2012)“2012 Notable Children's Books list”, American Library Association. NCTE/CLA Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts (2012)“2014 Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts”, National Council of Teachers of English.
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