Turner Watercolours Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard “This fur-raising one-to-10-and-back-again counting book

“This fur-raising one-to-10-and-back-again counting book perfectly captures the rollicking

Mail Duck is delivering differently shaped packages to all his friends on his mail route

Beginning with Tubman’s childhood—and discussing other notables in the war against slavery such as Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass

the book places these photographs within the broader history of photography

Turner Watercolours Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard “This fur-raising one-to-10-and-back-again counting bookFew can doubt that J. M. W. Turner (17751851) was the greatest exponent of British watercolor in its golden age. An inveterate traveler in search of the ideal vista, he rarely left home without a rolled up, loose bound sketchbook, pencils, and a small traveling case of watercolors in his pocket. He exploited as no one before him the mediums luminosity and transparency, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists