Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks and how she made history. The story starts in 2014 when a taxi driver tells a story from his childhood to a young boy. His story stretches from 1952 to 1956 and is about Rosa’s protest on the bus, her arrest, and her role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

I liked the story. In the beginning, the boy’s ignorance quite surprised me. I would expect he knew the basic historical facts and why he wears the t-shirt.

Art is ok, maybe not my favorite style. Gray and brown colors are dominant and give us the feeling from the 1950s. All the faces are almost the same shade. So it was not immediately obvious to me who was white. But this could be intentional to emphasize that people of all colors are the same and equal. I also confused mother and daughter a few times.

 

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Details:

• author: Matteo Mancini; Mariapaola Pesce
• full title: Rosa Parks
  
• genre: graphic novel, nonfiction
  
• topics: #rosaparks, #americanhistory
  
• publisher: Papercutz, NBM Publishing
  
• publish date: 01 Feb 2022
  
• pages: 128
  
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙.5
• illustrations: 💙💙💙.5