This book will be an excellent addition to my personal and classroom library. I studied each of the pictures and was impressed by the quality of the artwork and story that was imbedded within. I immediately recognized the similarity of BIG JABE to the story of Moses and the child in the basket, but I didn’t have any idea where the author was trying to take the reader.
In fact, a story could be told if each of Nelson’s illustrations. These full-page illustrations (painting) tell more about the activities than could easily be expressed in the space allowed. Both Jerdine Nolen (author) and Kadir Nelson (illustrator) show the reader how cruel and difficult the lives of slaves were during this era. The illustrations are such that they invite the reader to spend time looking at the specifics in the drawings and imagining what is going on behind the scenes. The story matches perfectly with Kadir Nelson's colorful, detailed striking artwork. Although fictionalized, the setting, history and horrors reflect some of what life may have been like during slavery.
Told through the eyes of Addy as imagined in the mind of Momma Mary, this story is fictionalized-possibly to make some of the suffering bearable to both the Momma Mary and Addy. Its setting is the imaginary Plenty Plantation. This picture book is a tall tale about slavery in the United States. There are many similarities in this story and the story of Moses. Although others in the “Quarters” could not explain how things were happening, Addy knew that Jabe was the reason why.
He had the “powers” to bring on storms, turn an old horse into a young one, and to protect slaves from impending harm. He grew to be a man in six month and had the strength of 50 men. Addy, an avid and successful fisherman, found a young boy, Jade floating in a basket in the river.
ISBN 006054061-3.īIG JABE is the story told from the point of view of a young slave named Addy.
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