Woodson, J. (2005). Show Way. New York: Penguin Group.
Years ago, a frightened little girl is sold at age seven - a slave...a child...a person. Only a needle and some thread offer comfort as she leaves the people who love her to live a life of slavery.
Jacqueline Woodson chronicles her family’s lineage in the book Show Way. Beginning with her great-great-great-great-grandma, Woodson writes of her family’s contribution to free slaves through the sewing of navigation or freedom quilts. Each block of the quilt represents landmarks such as log cabins, crossroads, the North Star, paths, or wildlife that slaves would follow to guide them on their path to freedom.
The book has beautiful illustrations that are a patchwork of pictures in brilliant colors showing the history of brave men and women who helped end this tragic time in our nation’s history. The book shows the love and admiration that Woodson has for her daughter and all of the women before them who “grew tall and straight-boned” (Woodson, 2005) giving them the strength to journey on a “road to a better place” (Woodson, 2005).
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