The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1865-1954 by Richard Wormser (Franklin Watts)īlack Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers) Magic Windows/Ventanas Magicas written and illustrated by Carmen Lomas Garza (Children’s Book Press)Ĭhildren of the Tlingit written and photographed by Frank Staub (Carolrhoda Books, Inc.) Ages 6-9.Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (Scholastic Press) The visual statement is as powerful as the story.
Sweeping, organic brushstrokes often angle diagonally, painting purple skies above green California fields or dividing rows of brown earth.
Using the bright colors of Mexican art, she skews the landscapes to reflect the characters' emotions.
Debut illustrator Morales's mixed-media, full-bleed art taps into folkloric qualities that enhance the humanity of the characters. I speak Spanish." The author also stresses Chavez's struggles to overcome extreme shyness and his commitment to nonviolent means of protest, demonstrating the latter in a climactic account of the landmark farm workers' strike and protest march led by Chavez in 1965. Krull selects details that the target audience will readily understand for example, she notes that Chavez attended 35 schools (he left after eighth grade) and that a teacher once hung a sign on him that read "I am a clown. A lyrical portrait of a glorious early boyhood on his family's Arizona ranch opens the sympathetic narrative and explains that drought forced the family off their land in 1937 and consigned them to the grueling life of itinerant manual farm labor. series) turns readers' attention to Cesar Chavez (1927–1993), founder of the National Farm Workers Association and champion of migrant workers.
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