Midnight Teacher

Review
By Publishers Weekly

Halfmann tells the powerful story of Lily Ann Granderson, an enslaved woman who “believed the path to freedom was through education.” Ladd’s rich, naturalistic acrylic-and-pencil images depict Granderson’s upbringing in Kentucky, where she learned to read and write in secret, then shared her knowledge with other children. The painful but uplifting narrative may spark readers’ curiosity about other enslaved individuals whose stories have not yet been told.