Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1580
Points per Word
0.000316
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This biography highlights the life of folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who, at the age of eighty-five, began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.