Alice Walsh

Change of Heart (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finally, the remarkable story of honourary Newfoundlander Lanier Phillips is available for young children in this heartwarming picture book.

A young African American and the son of sharecroppers, Lanier Phillips escapes the violence, racism, and segregation of his Georgia home by joining the navy during the Second World War. But tragedy strikes the USS Truxtun one February night off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland, and Lanier is the lone Black survivor of the terrible shipwreck. Covered in oil when he arrives onshore, the community?s kindness and humanity brings him back to health and changes his outlook on life. He would go on to march for Black rights with Martin Luther King, and remained forever grateful to the small town of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland.

With vibrant illustrations by celebrated artist Erin Banks, A Change of Heart vividly depicts Lanier?s life-changing experiences in Newfoundland that fateful February.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nimbus
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: ab 1 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771083720
• Artikelnr.: 75551103

Autorenporträt

Alice Walsh writes fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. A number of her books have been listed as Best Books for Children and Teens in Canada. Her juvenile novel, Pomiuk: Prince of the North (Beach Holme), won the 2005 Ann Connor Brimer Award. Alice studied early childhood education, has an MA in English, and has worked as a preschool teacher and creative writing instructor. Alice grew up in Newfoundland and currently lives in Nova Scotia.