Faith RinggoldIf A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

It was about Rosa Parks.

My children are between 8 and 13 and I read this book to them and we all enjoyed it. It's important to me that my children understand life in the past compared to now. The author did a great job depicting the struggles of blacks and how one single voice can help our world to be a bit kinder, a bit wiser, and a lot more educated and equitable with all cultures and races. The illustrations and story line was all well done. Keep our children educated and alert! The struggle is real!

This book was perfect for my k-1 homeschool pod. They gleamed much and loved learning of Rosa Parks in a fun and whimsical way.

My 4 year old son is really interested in history and has latched on to the story about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he changed the world. This story about Rosa Parks tells the whole story about how she came to be an activist and the impact her single act of passive resistance had on the civil rights movement. My son loved it when he could recognize King in the story. The talking bus makes this story magical and really appealing to children, my son will get it off the bookshelf and ask for it to be read to him.

obviously the subject is hard to tackle, especially to make comprehensible for children because honestly if you simplify it, there is no reason why a person riding a bus should be so complicated and have so many consequences. I admire the writer for trying to help children understand the concepts of change, injustice, struggle, bigotry, history. But it seems to jump to so many different ideas in a short time with a lot of words. even with an adult reading this book to a child, there's a lot to explain and piece together; to understand the consequences of history. it goes from her personal life to MLK's death and the Klan which are difficult sociological and historical events to capsulize. I admire the efforts and I like the illustrations but possibly, for a child's book, you have to stick to one concept at a time on a sensitive and difficult subject such as racism.

My 3 and 1/2 year old likes this book but it is a bit wordy and also gets into more advanced topics that I don't really want to get into now. I don't want her to read so much about African Americans as victims while she too young to understand more of the story. It is good - I just change some of the words while reading. As she gets older, I'll read it word for word.

My 7 year old read this book as one of this projects for February 2013Black History month and loved it. He has quite the imagination so thethought of a bus talking thrilled him. He had actually seen this bus inDetroit's Henry Ford Musuem, so it made the story more relevant to him.Great way to couple discussion of today's current events on news aboutsome states' efforts to limit voting rights in 2013 with thishistorical lesson that showed when people limited rights to eat at lunch countersand to ride buses. Illustrations are great engaging. Highly recommend it.

Should be in every child’s library .

I bought this book for my 7 year old as the Rosa Parks story is a great story of courage. The book was a little old for him but I would like to warn parents about some of the text which could terrify children of all ages. The book says "From Rosa's earliest childhood she could remember the scary nights when the Klu Klux Klan, a band of hateful white men dressed in white hooded robes, would ride past their farm shooting off rifles to frighten the black people. Rosa knew that the Klan had burned churches and beaten, tortured and lynched many black people..." This would be the stuff of nightmares for children and I don't want my son thinking it might happen to us, even if happily times have moved on

Such a lovely story....but did we really need references to her grandfather having "a shotgun and not being afraid to use it". It is a children's book after all. Just wish the publishers/author had been a little bit more sensitive to that.

The book is very educative and engaging but understand that its content and writing style is more suitable for children from 8 year old understanding.

Goods as described. Fast shipping. Highly recommend

Bit hard for 2 yr old to gasp but nice little book