Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history

She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No."

Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.

Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.

Rosa is a Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

Lincoln and Douglass, Spin a Soft Black Song, The Sun Is So Silent, and the Caldecott Honor Book Rosa are all written by Nikki Giovanni. Her autobiography, Gemini, was a National Book Award finalist, and she has won NAACP Image Awards for several of her novels. She was the first person to receive the Rosa L. Parks has received the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry and the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award.