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 [...]
In A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg, it’s 1963 in Kuckachoo Mississippi and Addie Ann Pickett is twelve years old and about to start middle school at West Thunder Creek Junior High School (more commonly known as County Colored). She worries about whether or not playing Double Dutch is to babyish or if her [...]
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