Author/Illustrator: Nikki Giovanni/Bryan Collier
Genre: Historial Fiction
Awards: Caldecott Honor Award (2006), NAACP Image Award (2000), Congressional Gold Medal (1999), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1996)
Age Level: 9-12
Summary: This powerful book, Rosa, is a powerful tribute to the strong and courageous Rosa Parks. After 50 years, the story is still being retold about a coloured women that refused to be sent to the back of the bus. Rosa was a woman tired of coloured drinking fountains, balconies, and entrances. She decided to be the one who stood up for her human rights. "The Integrity, the dignity, the quiet strength of Rosa Parks turned her no into a YES for change" (Giovanni 10).
The illustrations in this look like cut-outs pasted on top of each other. Some of the unique pictures are modified to open at the center of the page to have a fuller layout. This intensifies the illustrations and creates larger concrete images.
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