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First Edition. |
| Description |
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
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Age group: age Children lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Kindergartners lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu School children lcdgt |
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eth African Americans lcdgt |
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nat Americans lcdgt |
| 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 |
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Art techniques used: Illustrated in collage and water color, in both color and black and white. |
| 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. |
| Awards |
Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2006. |
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Caldecott Honor Book, 2006. |
| Audience |
800L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.9 0.5 102969. |
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Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.1 2 Quiz: 37845 Guided reading level: T. |
| Cast |
Narrated by Nikki Giovanni. Music by Ernest V. Troost. |
| Subject |
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
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Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
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Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005. (OCoLC)fst00209244
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Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
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African American women -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
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Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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Race discrimination -- Alabama.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
(OCoLC)fst00799575
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Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Segregation in transportation. (OCoLC)fst01111234
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Alabama -- Montgomery.
(OCoLC)fst01202689
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Collier, Bryan, illustrator.
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Henry Holt and Company, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Giovanni, Nikki. Rosa. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2005 (OCoLC)796934444 |
| ISBN |
0805071067 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780805071061 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780312376024 (pbk.) |
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0312376022 (pbk.) |
