Our Children Can Soar - Michelle Cook

A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
Multi-Illustrators including:
...Bryan Collier (Thurgood Marshall)
...Leo & Diane Dillon (George Washington Carver)
...E. B. Lewis (endpiece)
...James Ransome (intro)
and more!
Purblished: 2009
Rating: 5
$16.99
Endpapers: Red

"Our ancestors fought
.....so George could invent.
George invented
.....so Jessse could sprint.
Jesse sprinted
....."

From George Wasington Carver, Jesse Owens, Hattie McDaniel, and Ella Fitzgerald to Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, MLK Jr, through Thurgood Marshall and our most recent president, Barack Obama, this book is a celebration of Black Americans oin American history who paved the way .

Each two-page spread is devoted to one person and illustrated by a different illustrator. The text throughout is the simple text above. There are paragraph bios and paragraphs explanations for each illustration at the end of the book.

This is a beautiful book, perfect for teaching about Civil Rights and Black History.