Rosa Parks Book

True stories of true legends!

Legendary figures triumph over tough challenges in these brief biographies. Beginning readers learn about favorite heroes and heroines in books they can read for themselves.

When the "mother of the civil fights movement" refused to ride in the back of the bus it was the beginning of the end of segregation in Alabama. Visit all the high points in the remarkable life of this courageous woman.

School Library Journal

Gr 2-4Two picture-book biographies. Holland begins with Mandela's childhood as the son of a Thembu chief and continues through his work for fair government for all people in South Africa, his imprisonment, to his release in 1990. There is little else about this world leader for this age group. Rosa Parks follows the same format: early life, civil rights work, imprisonment, and release. The information is much the same as in Eloise Greenfield's Rosa Parks (Crowell, 1973) and David A. Adler's A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Holiday, 1993). Both of these books have a clear, direct writing style and are illustrated with colorful, attractive illustrations. Suitable additions.Anne Parker, Milton Public Library, MA