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If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Contributor(s): Ringgold, Faith (Author), Ringgold, Faith (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0689856768     ISBN-13: 9780689856761
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2003
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Annotation: In this book, a bus "does" talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the civil rights movement. At the end of Marcie's magical ride, she meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Dewey: B
LCCN: 98022578
Age Level: 5-9
Grade Level: Kindergarten-4
Lexile Measure: 980 AD (Adult Directed Text)
Series: Reading Rainbow Books
Physical Information: 0.14" H x 10.64" W x 9.8" L (0.39 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Locality - Montgomery, Alabama
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 12/02/2002 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2002
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 35405
Reading Level: 5.3   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
From a Caldecott Honor Award and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator comes a bright and offbeat picture book with a unique perspective on the story of Rosa Parks.

A young girl named Marcie has a magical bus ride where the bus itself tells her the story of the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks. Because she was black, Rosa had to walk miles to a one-room schoolhouse while white children could take the bus, and as an adult, Rosa could only sit in the back.

But when the day came that Rosa refused to give up her seat, she helped set the wheels in motion for black people to sit where they wanted. Marcie learns all this and more then gets a special surprise at the end of her trip


Contributor Bio(s): Ringgold, Faith: - Faith Ringgold grew up in Harlem, has a master's degree in education, and has taught art in New York City public schools. Deeply influenced by the Black Power movement, Faith developed an art style based on her African-American heritage. She created a series of narrative quilts about the lives of black women, one of which inspired her first picture book, Tar Beach, winner of a Caldecott Honor Award and a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. She went on to publish several more acclaimed picture books, including Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky and My Dream of Martin Luther King. Of this book she says, "If that bus Rosa Parks was on could tell us what happened, its story would be better than anyone's. It was wonderful to write something children could accept. They are ready to imagine and have open dreams, like Rosa, who must have had a dream in order to stretch herself." Faith Ringgold divides her time between New Jersey and Southern California.
 
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