Working cotton /
written by Sherley Anne Williams ; illustrated by Carole Byard.
- 1st ed.
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
"The text of Working Cotton is based on the poems "the trimming of the feathers" and "conejo," originally published in The Peacock poems by Sherley Anne Williams"--T.p. verso.
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
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Migrant labor--Fiction. Cotton picking--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction. Caldecott Honor book--1993. Coretta Scott King Honor book--1993.