If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

This was a great biographical picture book of Rosa Parks starting with her early life and continuing into her adult life after the boycott when she left Alabama after losing her job and moving north to Michigan. The whole story was told by a talking bus and it was like an imagined episode for the little girl, but it was very educational and well told. ( )

If a Bus Could Talk, the Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold, is brightly illustrated and puts the story of Rosa Parks into a story 1st graders can understand. One day Marcie boards a bus to go to school but discovers she is on the same bus that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on. As she takes a ride, she learns about Rosa Park's life and what lead her to the choice she made that day.

Marcie accidentally gets on the wrong bus one day, but with doing so is told the story of Rosa Parks, The story is told by through a very original way, it is told through the bus that Mrs. parks was asked to leave from. Dr. Martin Luther King is also mentioned in the story for some of his civil rights work. In the end the whole bus including Mrs, Parks celebrate her birthday ( )

This story gives details about Rosa Parks’s childhood through her involvement as a leader with the NAACP. It begins as a fictional account of a child riding the Rosa Parks’s bus. Then it goes into a historial account of Mrs. Parks’s life. It gives readers an understanding of the racism that she endured throughout her life which led to the bus incident. And, it goes beyond the bus arrest detailing her involvement in the struggle for Civil Rights. Teaching ideas include a social studies unit on civil rights or injustice, and I would include grades 2-5. The illustrations were colorful and had a childlike characteristic with bold, bright colors that children will enjoy. ( )

This book is about a young girl named Marcie who hops onto a talking bus. This book recounts the story of Rosa parks. Marcie learns about the segregation laws and about the Alabama Bus Boycott. This picture book is a great document of the life of Rosa Parks. ( )