Love Twelve Miles Long (Hardcover)

from destinymbruner

A touching story based on the life of Frederick Douglass. His mother details her 12 mile walk to visit him and explains how she makes it through each mile. My heart was touched reading this and seeing how difficult a time it was for mothers to be separated from children and the distances they had...

from jackiediorio

Any family that has a parent that is far away will appreciate this book, as well young students that need to read historical non-fiction. This picture book is about the relationship between young Fredrick Douglass and his mother. Fredrick's mother is a slave, and hence lives far away from him and...

from nbmars

This is an amazing story story based on the childhood of Frederick Douglass. When Frederick was young, he and his mother were separated because of slavery. As Douglass wrote in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: "It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, ...

from skstiles612

This was a beautiful book. It is the story of young Frederick Douglas. His mother lived twelve miles away and walked to visit him. He asked her about each mile. She tells him the first mile is for forgetting, the second is for remembering, the third is for listening. The fourth mile is for lookin...

from Sullywriter

Poignant, beasutifully illustrated story based on the life of young Frederick Douglass.