![]() My mother, Ernestine Howard, left Charlottesville, VA, in 1930 at the age of five and traveled north to Everett, MA. Both of these books are based in the 1940s and focus on the Great Migration-a period beginning in the early 1900s, when blacks left the South for the North. When I started working on them, I thought about my family. Lesa Cline-Ransome: As you know, many of the nonfiction picture books I write are based on historical figures, so embarking on these fictional projects was a bit of a departure for me. ![]() ![]() Are these characters completely fictional, or are they based on real people? James Ransome: Lesa, you have such engaging characters in your books. The pair teamed up once again to discuss Southern roots, messy workspaces, and the value of keeping abundant inspiration close by. In their picture book Overground Railroad, the husband-wife, author-illustrator duo brings the Great Migration to dazzling life through poetry and collage. ![]() In Leaving Lymon, Cline-Ransome's companion novel to 2018's Finding Langston, an unfamiliar path shapes a whole new set of circumstances for the boy readers know only as Langston's classmate and bully. The characters in Lesa Cline-Ransome's books are familiar with movement it's not always voluntary and sometimes it's painful, but it often leads to exciting personal growth. ![]()
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