Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the American abolitionist movement.

This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals and worked alongside each other for a common goal.

The acclaimed team behind Rosa, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor book, join forces once more to portray this historic friendship at a unique moment in time.

NIKKI GIOVANNI is one of our best-known and best-loved American poets. She is the author of Rosa, which won a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award, as well many other books for children and adults. She teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech and lives in Christiansburg, Virginia.

BRYAN COLLIER is the illustrator of the acclaimed Rosa and the author/illustrator of Uptown,winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award.He is also the illustrator of Martin’s Big Words, a Caldecott Honor Book. Mr. Collier lives with his family in New York.