Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist Hardcover by Barbara Herkert; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous Dr Frances Sands is Curator

Dr Frances Sands is Curator of Drawings and Books at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London where she has worked since 2010

At Telltale Games

bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades

he was able to share his reporting notes and knowledge with Ronan Farrow

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist Hardcover by Barbara Herkert; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton Ethnic & Regional - Indigenous Dr Frances Sands is CuratorProduct Details Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (2015 10 13) Language: English Pages: 40 ISBN 13: 9780385754620 Weight: 411. 08 grams Dimensions: 28. 57 x 22. 86 x 0. 84 cm An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction,