Grandmama's Pride
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2006 IRA Children's Book Award Notables 2005 SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Book (Picture Book Text) CCBC Choices 2006 2008 Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Master List (Kansas) 2007-2008 Show Me Readers Award... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080753028X
ISBN13:9780807530283
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:Albert Whitman & Company
Length:32 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 11.0" x 8.7"
Age Range:4 to 8 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Grade 3
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
complex structure delivers a great read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I loved this book and have read it to children with very good effect. What most impressed me was the tight, circling structure. It could have ended about half way through and been a good book. But the sisters, after visitng their grandmama in the south and experiencing Jim Crow segregation, go back north. The older sister learns to read, starts to figure things out, and then they come south again. The older sister sees the wisdom of her elders' response to segregation and joins them to protect her younger sister. They revisit the same places--the segregated fountain, bathroom, the lunchcounter--but now with this new insight. I love when children's books have that parallel structure. The art work is great, the prose poetic, the story and characters with great univeral appeal.
Grandmama's Pride
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
A little girl and her family go South to visit her grandma. When she gets there, things are not like at home. Black people and white people are treated differently. She sees "Colored" and "White Only" signs. She didn't like it. Things change when she went to visit her grandma again the next summer. Everyone could use the same bathroom, water fountain and waiting room. I liked it because it taught me more about black and white people and the way things used to be. Reviewed by: Jada Monet, 7-years old
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