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Africville / Shauntay Grant ; pictures by Eva Campbell.

Grant, Shauntay, (author.). Campbell, Eva, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion Festival."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781773060439
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:	Grade Level: K-2 Age Range: 4-7
Biographical or Historical Data:	Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community. Shauntay Grant is a writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist, and musician. She was Halifax’s third poet laureate (2009–2010). She is the author of The City Speaks in Drums and Up Home, which won the 2008 Atlantic Book Award for Best Atlantic Published Book and was shortlisted for the 2010 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Awards. Shauntay lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Awards Note:	Winner of the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. Finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books. Finalist for a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Books Award.