Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Flying Eye Books boundlessly inventive journey through classic

boundlessly inventive journey through classic worlds as you’ve never seen them before

nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works

Playful illustrations coupled with cheeky storytelling and real information about life (and death) in the ancient world—delivered by the all-knowing Oracle of Wi-Fi—make this collection of fabulous fables an essential addition to your library

Autographed by author

a visual glossary

Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Flying Eye Books boundlessly inventive journey through classicBooker dreamed of making friends with words, setting free the secrets that lived in books. Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five hundred mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true. The young slave who once