He also illustrated Americas White Table. She is the author of dozens of books for young readers, including Goodbye. His awards include three gold and two silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. Gloria Whelan won a National Book Award in 2000 for her novel Homeless Bird. Mike Bennys illustrations have appeared in Time, GQ, and The New Yorker magazines. Gloria Whelans other titles in the Tales of Young Americans series include Friend on Freedom River (Jefferson Cup honor book) and Mackinac Bridge: The Story of the Five-Mile Poem (2007 Michigan Notable Book). Armed with a suitcase, some canvases, and a scholarship to art school in Detroit, Kate is ready to leave home and fully immerse herself in painting.

Visit the Career Advice Hub to see tips on accelerating your career. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adoresart. And when the promise of freedom appears on the horizon, the children are the first to hear it. Learn more about gloria whelans work experience, education, connections & more by. They had no control over their daily lives or futures. Who will be sold? Who will stay? The lives of slaves depended on the inclinations of their owners. The children listen in the hopes of gleaning information about their fates and those of their loved ones. Each night Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their masters house. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adoresart. Its dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. Book Synopsis Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesnt live in the great house. Each night, Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their masters house in the hopes of gleaning information about their fates and those of their loved ones. Several of her books have been IRA Children’s and Teachers’ Choices and Notable Children’s Trade Books in the field of Social Studies.

About the Book Ella May is a slave on a Southern plantation. Gloria Whelan is a poet and award-winning short-story writer who has also written many books for children, including Hannah Night of the Full Moon Goodbye, Vietnam and Once on this Island.

See What I See by Gloria Whelan