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Africville

English

By (author): Shauntay Grant

Illustrated by: Eva Campbell

Winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award

Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Finalist for a Governor Generals Literary Award, Young Peoples Literature Illustrated Books
Finalist for a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Childrens Books Award

When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories shes 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- grandmothers name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival.

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Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.

Key Text Features
historical context
references

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 421g
  • Dimensions: 209 x 260mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Oct 2018
  • Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd Canada
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781773060439

About Shauntay Grant

SHAUNTAY GRANT is a descendant of Black Loyalists Jamaican Maroons and Black Refugees who migrated to Canada some two hundred years ago. A writer and performance artist she has won the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize and she has published several picture books. Shauntay also lectures in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. Her professional degrees and training include the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of British Columbia and the Bachelor of Journalism program at the University of Kings College. She lives in Halifax. EVA CAMPBELL is an artist and illustrator who teaches visual art. She has exhibited her work in Canada the US the UK Barbados and Ghana. Eva won the Childrens Africana Book Award for her illustrations in The Matatu by Eric Walters. She also illustrated Africville by Shauntay Grant winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration and a Governor Generals Literary Award finalist. Eva lives in Victoria.

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