WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michelle Wood. [Sommerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 4to, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford.

First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! This moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom follows the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. In six-line stanzas, each line representing one side of a box, Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s struggle to escape the clutches of slavery and find his way to freedom.