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    Meet Miss Fancy
    Meet Miss Fancy
    Meet Miss Fancy
    Audiobook15 minutes

    Meet Miss Fancy

    Written by Irene Latham

    Narrated by Channie Waites

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    FRANK HAS ALWAYS LOVED elephants, from their hosepipe trunks and flap-flap ears to
    their tree-stump feet and swish-swish tails. But he’s never seen one in real life. More than
    anything, Frank wants to pet an elephant. He thinks he just might get his chance when Miss
    Fancy, a circus elephant, retires to Birmingham’s Avondale Park.
    But disappointment sets in quickly when Frank realizes he won’t be allowed to pet her, after all.
    The year is 1913 and Avondale Park is segregated. The NO COLORED ALLOWED sign looms large
    and means Frank’s dream will stay a dream . . . unless he can find a way to change things.
    Based on the true history of Miss Fancy, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama’s Avondale Park
    until 1934, Meet Miss Fancy is an endearing and heartrending story set in the era when Jim Crow
    reigned supreme, largely unchecked but for the dreams and will of those who thought they could
    make a difference
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9781705010594
    Meet Miss Fancy
    Author

    Irene Latham

    Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of poetry, fiction, and picture books. Her work includes Charlotte Huck Honor Book and ALA Notable Children's Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written with Charles Waters) and the Caldecott Honor Book The Cat Man of Aleppo(co-written by Karim Shamsi-Basha). In 2016 she won the ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award. Visit her at www.irenelatham.com.

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    • 4/5
      An interesting story with beautiful illustrations. A great way to learn about this time in history through this story based on a real elephant.