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Uncle Tom's Cabin Vol. 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin( )
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Foreword by: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Series title:Aladdin Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-689-85126-1
Publication Date:Aug 2002
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $16.99
Book Description:

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than twenty languages. This powerful story of one slave's unbreakable spirit holds an important place in American history, as it helped solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and moved a nation to civil war.

Book Details
Pages:720
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.018 x 19.368 x 4.826 cm
Book Weight:0.491 Kilograms
Author Biography
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Author)
Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an assembly line hanging car doors.

His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

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