"Paired very effectively with Giovanni's passionate, directwords, Collier's large watercolor-and-collage illustrations depictParks as an inspiring force that radiates golden light." --Booklist, Starred Review
"Purposeful in its telling, this is a handsome andthought-provoking introduction to these watershed acts of civildisobedience." -- School Library Journal
"Giovanni and Collier offer a moving interpretation of RosaPark's momentous refusal to give up her bus seat. The authorbrings her heroine very much to life...a fresh take on a remarkablehistoric event." -- Publishers Weekly
"An essential volume for classrooms and libraries." -- KirkusReviews
【作者简介】
Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry forchildren and adults. She is the author of Lincoln andDouglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping andOther Poems for Young People. Rosa is a Caldecott Honorbook. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, amother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville,Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb ofCincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University ofPennsylvania, and Columbia University. She published herfirst book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, andsince 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 NationalBook Award, and several of her books have received NAACP ImageAwards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, beennamed Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, TheLadies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipientof the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awardedthe Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. Nikki Giovanni lives inChristiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English atVirginia Polytechnic Institute.
Bryan Collier is the author and illustrator ofUptown, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and the EzraJack Keats Book Award. He is also the illustrator of Martin'sBig Words, which was a Caldecott Honor Book. The ChicagoSun-Times has called Collier’s art “breathtakingly beautiful.”Mr. Collier lives with his family in Upstate New York.
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