Freedom in Congo Square author-Ben Hoare a fascinating study of Tolkien’s

a fascinating study of Tolkien’s great masterpiece

Based on the life of the real man who was known first as a prince

into another person

Told in upbeat rhyming verse

When a twelve-year-old girl named Cleo and her cat

Freedom in Congo Square author-Ben Hoare a fascinating study of Tolkien’sWEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Freedom in Congo Square. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. [NY] Little Bee Books [2016]. 4to, [40]pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every spread. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Signed by the artist, R. Gregory Christie, and with a bookplate signed by the author, Newbery honor author Carole Boston Weatherford, laid in. First edition. 2017