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Rosa

Title

Rosa / Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.

Author

Giovanni, Nikki

Publication

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2005]

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Additional Authors

Collier, Bryan

Description

34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.

Note

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.

Awards (note)

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

Call Number

JFF 06-981

ISBN

0805071067
9780805071061

LCCN

2005002160
9780805071061

OCLC

57754461

Author

Giovanni, Nikki, author.

Title

Rosa / Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.

Publisher

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2005]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Ethnic/cultural group: African Americans

National/regional group: Americans

Awards

Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2006.

Caldecott Honor Book, 2006

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Publisher description

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Collier, Bryan, illustrator.

Other Standard Identifier

9780805071061

Research Call Number

JFF 06-981

Sc F 06-538

J B Parks

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