Rosa, Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award, is the personal story of Rosa Parks's stand against segregation. The story introduces us to Rosa, a seamstress, her husband, a barber, and her mother who was just getting over the flu. The story then quickly moves to her famous refusal to give up her seat on the bus. This refusal begins the Women's Political Caucus call to boycott riding the buses, the Brown v. Board of Education, the aftermath of the murder of Emmett Till, and Martin Luther King, Jr, becoming the spokesperson for the civil rights movement. I felt many of the illustrations, by Bryan Collier, were too angular, but the backgrounds were very detailed and reflected the mood of the time. I enjoyed the background information given about Mrs. Parks and how they interwove details from this time in history to connect to Mrs. Parks.
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