A Bus of Our Own
Mable Jean wants to go to school. She has to walk five miles to get there, though, and her papa told her that if she can't keep up, she'll have to wait another year. Mable Jean asks her parents why the black children don't have a bus, too.
"This story, based on true events, tells how Mable Jean's simple question inspired a community of African Americans in post-World War II Mississippi to beat the odds." -- Thomas Pitchford, School Library Journal
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Set in the South more than 50 years ago, Costello's oil paintings show the suffering (in one unforgettable double-page spread the white kids on the bus jeer as they pass the walking children) but also the determination of the black community.... The drama is in the facts about what ordinary people did together." -- Hazel Rochman, Booklist
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 5 - 9 |
|---|---|
| Author | Freddi Williams Evans |
| Illustrator | Shawn Costello |
| ISBN | 1489623140 |
| Publication Date | Jan 1, 2001 |
| Publisher | Albert Whitman & Company |
| Language | English |