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Title details for Rosa by Nikki Giovanni - Available

Rosa

by Nikki Giovanni
Bryan Collier
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She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No."An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history

Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.

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  • Release date

    September 19, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780545836340
      • File size: 5981 KB
      • Duration: 00:12:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 800
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This handsomely illustrated account of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat chronicles Parks's journey from unassuming bus rider to Civil Rights leader. In Giovanni's account, Rosa has had a "good day," and her choice to stay seated is prompted by courage rather than exhaustion. Giovanni's calm, strong narration lends dignity (and occasionally quiet outrage) to Parks's story. The production is further enhanced by occasional background sounds--the squeal of bus brakes, the ching of coins dropping--as well as piano music and quiet vocals. As listeners hear Parks's story unfold into the larger story of the Civil Rights Movement while viewing Bryan Collier's luminous collage-like illustrations, they will absorb a sense of how ordinary citizens can become extraordinary leaders. J.C.G. 2008 Audies Finalist (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 29, 2005
      Giovanni (The Sun Is So Quiet
      ) and Collier (Uptown
      ) offer a moving interpretation of Rosa Parks's momentous refusal to give up her bus seat. The author brings her heroine very much to life as she convincingly imagines Parks's thoughts and words while she rode the bus on December 1, 1955 ("She was not frightened. She was not going to give in to that which was wrong"), pointing out that Mrs. Parks was in the neutral section of the bus and (as some fellow riders observe) "She had a right to be there." The author and poet lyrically rephrases what the heroine herself has frequently said, "She had not sought this moment, but she was ready for it." After Mrs. Parks's arrest, the narrative's focus shifts to the 25 members of the Women's Political Council, who met secretly to stage the bus boycott. Inventively juxtaposing textures, patterns, geometric shapes and angles, Collier's watercolor and collage art presents a fitting graphic accompaniment to the poetic text. After viewing an image of Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraging a crowd to walk rather than ride the buses, readers open a dramatic double-page foldout of the Montgomery masses walking for nearly a year before the Supreme Court finally ruled that segregation on buses was illegal. A fresh take on a remarkable historic event and on Mrs. Parks's extraordinary integrity and resolve. Ages 5-up.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:800
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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