Colorful illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Ringgold highlight this biography of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, is a well-remembered event in the history of the civil rights movement.
If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom.
In this book a bus "does" talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. At the end of Marcie's magical ride, she meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests. Wait until she tells her class about this
Product Details
IF A BUS COULD TALK
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Product Weight: 1.10 lbs
Author: Ringgold, Faith
Illustrator: Ringgold, Faith
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Language: English
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS YOU
Dewey Decimal Classification: B
Audience Age Group: 05 to 08
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780689818929