I Am Rosa Parks

by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins, James Haskins

Book Overview

The African American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141307102
• ISBN13: 9780141307107
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 4

Customer Reviews

The book came a mess! Pages falling out all over!

The book came a mess! Pages falling out all over!

A really good book

Reviewed by Madeline McElroy (age 7) for Reader Views (8/08) I was surprised that I liked this book; I didn't even want to read it. I guess I thought it would be boring. My Mom told me we had studied this during Black History Month last year in first grade, but I didn't remember. This book was a story about Rosa Parks, who some say started the civil rights movement because she would not give up her seat on the bus. I learned about black history and segregation. Rosa Parks probably thought it was really unfair how she and all the other black people were treated. If I was her I would feel mad! I'm happy I read "I Am Rosa Parks.". I think it is a really good book for kids my age. It was a little hard to read with all of the big new words I learned. But it told me a lot about Rosa's life in the South when things weren't so good for black people.

Rosa Parks

This is a wonderful book for children. It teaches them about segregation, and about being brave and standing up for your ideas. Great story...Too bad it was true.

a book that captures the history of the civil rights era

This book was well received by our 6 yr old granddaughter. It is a book that can be read with a youngster. It captures the spirit of Rosa Parks in easily understood language.

Rosa Parks

This book is a great read for a young child...maybe K-2nd grade. It was good at laying out for the reader the life of Rosa Parks.

I AM ROSA PARKS

This book is about a girl that had to give her seat up in a bus for a white person. She did not get up so they called the police.The police arrested her for not getting up.Then when Rosa got out of jail she made a statement saying, " Why do black people have to give up for white people?" They compromised and the black people do not have to give up there seat anymore. I liked this story because if Rosa Parks did not say anything we will be still separated from black people.