After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson is a beautiful book. Woodson continues to not disappoint me. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but I’m a Woodson fan girl.
At the heart of this story is the bond of three twelve-year-old girls. Our unnamed narrator and Neeka are forever changed when D [...]
Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina and illustrated by Colin Bootman is very similar to the picture book Ron’s Big Mission which I reviewed last week. Both are about the desegregation of libraries in the south.
In Finding Lincoln, Louis needs to write an essay for school about Abraham Lincoln when he was a boy. His small [...]
Yesterday I just reviewed the book My People that was illustrated to a Langston Hughes poem, so why not another one today? The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes and illustrated by E.B. Lewis is a beautiful book with simply stunning watercolor spreads.
Langston Hughes was just 18 when he composed The Negro Speaks of [...]
In The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, thirteen-year-old Sam is the son of civil rights activist Roland Childs (who is a fictional character just to be clear), who is close to Martin Luther King Jr. Sam has grown up his whole life participating in demonstrations and stuffing more envelopes than he cares to [...]
Do you know who Claudette Colvin is? You do know that Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, don’t you? Read Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose and you will discover this unsung civil rights hero.
In full honesty, I [...]
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