![]() ![]() Just like the children this book is written for, “She studied the alphabet until her eyes watered. In the crush of work, Mary never learned to read.Īfter her husband and all three of her sons had passed away, when Mary was 114 years old, she joined a reading class in her retirement class. When Mary was fifteen years old, the Civil War ended, and she and her family began sharecropping and finding other ways to provide for themselves. ![]() The author’s note acknowledges that Hubbard had to imagine the conditions of her enslavement since no records remain. Mary, as she’s called in the book, was born into enslavement. Rita Lorraine Hubbard has written this beautiful tribute to Mary Walker. The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read acknowledges that effort and reminds us what a treasure literacy is. Children spend a lot of time and energy learning to read. ![]()
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