| Author |
Faith Ringgold |
| Title |
If
A Bus Could Talk |
| Illustrator |
Faith
Ringgold |
| Readability Score |
5.1 |
| Genre |
Biography |
| Subgenre |
Children's
Book |
| Theme |
Children
can learn about what life was like for African American during the civil
rights movement. |
| Primary and Secondary Characters |
Primary:
Marcie Secondary: The bus, Rosa Parks |
| Award(s) and Date of Publication |
NAACP Image Award, Corretta Scott King, Caldecott Honor Award/ 1999
|
| Publishing Company |
Simon
& Schuster Children's Publishing |
| ISBN Number |
0-689-81892-0
|
| Summary |
This
story is about a girl, Marcie the narrator, who rides an unusal bus that
tells Marcie about the life of Rosa Parks. The bus begins the ride and story
by sharing about Rosa's childhood an dher family. The bus continues the story
by explaining the famous event when Rosa was arrested becuse she didn't give
up her seat to a white person. The bus finishes his story to the narrator by
telling her that Rosa was awarded various awardsa nd prizes for her act of
bravery. The story ends with the bus stopping to pick up Rosa so they cna all
celebrate and remember what she did for African American's and the Civil
Rights Movement so many years ago.
|
| Description of how you would use the book |
I
could use this book in a text set when teaching about the civil right's
movement in America's history. |
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