Free as a Bird

In Henry’s Freedom Box,By Ellen Levine and illustrated Kadir Nelson, Henry’s desire to be free is compared with the image of a bird in order for a young audience to understand what it means to have freedom. The primary audience for the book would be children who may be learning to read or having the book…

Bird’s Soaring, and the Leaves Swirling in the Wind

In the children’s book, “Henry’s Freedom Box” by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Imagery and symbolism is used to emphasize the feelings and desires of Henry Brown when he was being sent to work for his ill master’s son. On pages 7 and 8, a white man has come to pick up Henry…