8.6 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publisher Square Fish Pages 40 Originally published 1 October 2005 Illustrator Bryan Collier | 4.3/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date October 1, 2005 ISBN 9780805071061 Page count 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Picture book, Fiction, Children's literature Awards Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators Similar Nikki Giovanni books, Caldecott Medal winners, African Americans books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rosa is a children's picture book written by poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier. A biography of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks,
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Giovanni was the first recipient of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award and knew Parks personally through their involvement in civil rights activism. Rosa was published in October 2005, as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic arrest and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks died of natural causes later that month at the age of 92.
Awards
Rosa won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators and was a Caldecott Honor Book in 2006.
References
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