The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman is a 2005 Newbery Honor book. This is one of those times where I am resorting to the jacket flap because I keep thinking how I could rewrite it in my own words and then I realize I [...]
I recently read and reviewed Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges and wanted to follow that up with the picture book The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles and illustrated by George Ford.
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is the first black child to attend an all white elementary school during the civil rights movement and of [...]
Freedom Walkers, The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman has been on my radar forever. I’ve checked it out from the library at least three times but this time I was finally able to sit down and read it. And I cried. I love books like this. I don’t know if it’s [...]
Ruby Bridges is an icon of the civil rights movement. And it is in Through My Eyes that we are given a first hand account of what it was like to be a small 6 year old black girl in New Orleans, Louisiana who sets the stage for school integration.
In 1954, the year that Ruby [...]
Please welcome Shana Burg, author of A Thousand Never Evers to the Maw Books Blog for a wonderful interview! If you haven’t read A Thousand Never Evers, what are you waiting for? You won’t regret the time that you spend with Addie Ann and her family down in Kuckachoo Mississippi (read my book review). Shana [...]
