His compassionate novel is a suitable class read aloud for junior grades and intelligently challenges such an important historical event. However, Curtis highlights that there is hope after such violence, as the villagers politely respect each other and their past painful experiences, no matter how tragic.Ĭhristopher Paul Curtis shines as a fine storyteller.
It is important to note there are several violent, yet realistic, scenes which depict the brutal consequences endured by slaves. The kind-hearted narrator is a celebrity of sorts as he is the first child born in Buxton, yet Elijah is plagued with the label of ‘fra-gile’- a label his mother constantly gives her only child. Related in a vivid, comical dialect, Elijah’s everyday routine exposes the relationships, personalities and values of the people of Buxton whose commonality is surviving slavery. The reader follows the humorous yet suspenseful adventures of the gullible 11-year-old narrator, Elijah, in the newlyformed community that was a sanctuary for southern American slaves. In his latest novel, the Newbury Awardwinning author Christopher Paul Curtis paints a memorable picture of life in 1849 in the black settlement of Buxton, Ontario. When I'd go to the library to write, it was as if he were anxiously waiting for me, waiting to tell about his life, his worries, his adventues."Ĭhristopher Paul Curtis lives with his wife and two children in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.Ĭhristopher Paul Curtis' profile page Librarian Reviews "From the word 'go' Elijah and I became close friends. "This novel came to me in a way that was far different than any other," states Curtis. His 2007 book Elijah of Buxton won a Newbery Honor, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2008. His first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book citation in 1996, and Bud, Not Buddy received the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award in 2000.
1 and graduated from the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. After high school graduation, he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Plant/Flint Plant No. Christopher Paul Curtis was born and reared in Flint, Michigan.
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