The true story of a brave Civil War soldier from the first Black regiment who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
An inspiring nonfiction picture book for ages 7-10 from award-winning author-illustrator duo Gary Golio and E. B. Lewis.
During the Civil War battle at Fort Wagner in South Carolina William Carney performed a brave and noble act. When his regiment's color guard carrying the United States flag was injured, William picked up the flag himself. Despite being shot several times and injured, William carried the flag across the battlefield to Union lines, making him a hero.
For Carney and other men of the 54th Massachusetts-the first official Black regiment of the Union Army, immortalized in the movie Glory-the flag was more than a piece of cloth. It was a near-sacred thing that represented a more just America where they might be free.
William Carney was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for this act, defying widespread racial discrimination and prejudice. This book celebrates his remarkable life with forceful prose by Gary Golio and drammatic watercolors by award-winning artist E. B. Lewis.
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A visual artist, musician, and psychotherapist, Gary Golio is the author of the New York Times-bestselling picture book Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow, which received the 2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. His other books, most of which profile important artists, include When Bob Met Woody, Strange Fruit, Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge, Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem, The Soldier's Friend, and Silence Sounds Simple.
The recipient of a Caldecott Honor and a five-time Coretta Scott King award-winner, E. B. Lewis is the illustrator of more than seventy books for children. His recent titles include Everywhere Beauty is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava by Gary Golio, which received four starred reviews and was a Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of 2024, and The Soldier's Friend: Walt Whitman's Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War also by Gary Golio. He is best known for illustrating Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim, a 2016 New York Times Best Illustrated Book, and Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson, for which he won a 2005 Caldecott Honor Award.