![]() ![]() Festive and full of mirth, her fluid, motion-packed lines put a visible spring in her characters' steps, and her palette is as summery as lemonade and blue skies. But the larger treat is newcomer Buchanan's loose pen-and-ink and watercolor art. ![]() Although wordy, the enthusiastic text allows readers to discover-and celebrate-the holiday along with Cassandra. She is duly astonished by the rousing Juneteenth celebration, with its shows, parade, crafts and cheerful spectators. Cassandra, newly moved to Texas, doesn't know about the holiday-her parents and other relatives are cooking, dancing and dressing up a storm, all the while telling her to expect a surprise (the only hint is that it's a Texas tradition). ![]() After enjoying all the surprises of Juneteenthan emancipation celebration that is said to have. It was a fine day for daydreaming, begins Carole Boston Weatherford’s joyful picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a young girl who has just moved to her parents’ hometown in Texas. On that day Texas slaves learned about their emancipation-an astonishing two and a half years after Lincoln signed the proclamation. Carole Boston Weatherford's Juneteenth Celebration. Starring a likable girl named Cassandra, Weatherford's debut introduces readers to Juneteenth, which commemorates the events of June 19, 1865. ![]()
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