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Illustrator
  
Max Ginsburg

Publication date
  
1987-09-30

Originally published
  
30 September 1987

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
56 pp

OCLC
  
14965647

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Publisher
  
hardback, Dial, paperback, Puffin

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Genres
  
Children's literature, African-American literature

Awards
  
Similar
  
Mildred D Taylor books, Logan Family Saga books, Children's literature

The friendship mildred d taylor


The Friendship is an award-winning book by Mildred Taylor. Published in 1987, it is set in 1933 in Mississippi and deals with the unfair treatment of African Americans.

Contents

Summary

Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, twice saved the life of a white storekeeper when he was a boy. The boy, John Wallace, was grateful and even allowed Mr. Bee to always call him by his first name. However, years later, Mr. Wallace does not allow Mr. Bee to call him John, while he and even his son call him Tom, which he can do nothing about. Their friendship is ultimately put to the test, which four black children witness. Later Mr. Tom Bee is shot by John Wallace. Mr. Tom Bee crawls away, cursing John Wallace and refusing to give up calling him John.

Reception

In giving The Friendship, a kirkus star, Kirkus Reviews wrote "From its quiet beginning, the tension grows relentlessly in this brief, carefully designed story." and "Ginsburg's black-and-white drawings are outstanding, his solid figures masterfully staged to convey the taut drama." It is also the subject of study at school.

Awards

  • 1988 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner
  • 1988 Coretta Scott King Award winner
  • References

    The Friendship Wikipedia


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