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Rosa: (Caldecott Honor Book)
Contributor(s): Giovanni, Nikki (Author), Collier, Bryan (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0805071067 ISBN-13: 9780805071061
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
Annotation: More than 50 years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is the subject of this picture-book tribute to her courageous action and the events that followed.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2005002160

Age Level: 4-8

Grade Level: PreK-3

Lexile Measure: 800(Not Available)

Guided Reading: W (Grade 6)

Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.7" W x 11.2" L (0.95 lbs) 40 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Awards: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Nominee, Children's, 2007
Keystone to Reading Book Award, Nominee, Intermediate, 2007
Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee, Picture Book, 2006
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Seven to Ten, 2006
Delaware Diamonds Award, Nominee, Grades 3-5, 2006
Caldecott Medal, Honor Book, Picture Book, 2006
Coretta Scott King Award, Winner, Illustrator, 2006
Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007), Winner, Gold, 2005
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, Winner, Children's, 2006

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2005 pg. 1797
Kirkus Review - Children 07/15/2005 pg. 789
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2005 pg. 56
School Library Journal 09/01/2005 pg. 192
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2005 pg. 42
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2005 pg. 136
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/01/2006 pg. 24
Multicultural Review 05/01/2006 pg. 88
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 pg. 171 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 102969
Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

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.

Rosa is a 2006 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

Contributor Bio(s): Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five "Living Legends." Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.Collier, Bryan: -

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 by Doreen Rappaport and Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, both of which are Caldecott Honor Books. The Chicago Sun-Times has called Collier's art "breathtakingly beautiful." Mr. Collier lives with his family in Harlem in New York City.

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