Rosa /Nikki Giovanni .

By:

Giovanni, Nikki [Author]

Contributor(s):

Collier, Bryan []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780312376024

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Children's nonfiction.

LOC classification:

F334 .R673 2005
F334

Online resources:

Available additional physical forms:

Awards:

Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2006.
Caldecott Honor Book, 2006.

Subject: The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. 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 picture-book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Juvenile Book (10-day checkout)	G. Allen Fleece Library JUVENILE-CALDECOTT	Fiction	F334.G568.R673 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Caldecott Honor, 2006		31923001739743

Bryan Collier is the author and illustrator of Uptown, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. He is also the illustrator of Martin's Big Words, which was a Caldecott Honor Book. The Chicago Sun-Times has called Collier's art "breathtakingly beautiful." Mr. Collier lives with his family in Harlem in New York City. www.bryancollier.com

Art techniques used: Illustrated in collage and water color, in both color and black and white.

The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. 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 picture-book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.

Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2006.

Caldecott Honor Book, 2006.

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