Sarah Jeans Uncle Jed was the only black barber in the county. He had a kind heart and a warm smile. And he had a dream. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it was her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people were sharecroppers, Uncle Jed had to travel all over the county to cut his customers hair. He lived for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But it was a long time, and many setbacksfrom five-year-old Sarah Jeans emergency operation to the bank failures of the Great Depressionbefore the joyful day when Uncle Jed opened his shiny new shop and twirled a now grown-up Sarah Jean around in the barber chair. With James E. Ransomes richly colored paintings brimming with life, this is a stirring story of dreams long deferred and finally realized.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is aimed at children in preschool-2nd grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 3-7 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster .

Lesa Cline-Ransome is the author of many award-winning and critically acclaimed nonfiction books for young readers, including Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams ; My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey ; and Before She Was Harriet . She is also the author of the novel Finding Langston , which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award and five starred reviews . She lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Learn more at LesaClineRansome. com