A Bus of Our Own - Hardcover

Evans, Freddi Williams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807509701 ISBN 13: 9780807509708

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2001

Synopsis

Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have.

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Review

"Long before Rosa Parks, a group of African American sharecroppers in a rural community in Mississippi organized their own bus so that their children could get to school. The story is based on a real event, and Evans tells it through the eyes of a young child, Mable Jean, who is desperate to get to school, but just can't keep up with her older brother and make the five-mile walk there and back every day. 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."

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807509701
• ISBN 13: 9780807509708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Costello Shawn