  | Book Details Title: Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story |
Book DescriptionReview **STARRED REVIEW** “Delivers a beautiful and tender message about equality from the very first page.”, Kirkus Reviews**STARRED REVIEW** “Cooper’s richly textured illustrations evoke sepia photographs’ dreamlike combination of distance and immediacy, complementing the aura of reminiscence that permeates Langley and Nathan’s narrative.”, Publishers Weekly”A solid addition to U.S. history collections for its subject matter and its first-person historical narrative.”, School Library Journal Read more About the Author Sharon Langley became known around the country in 1963 as the first African-American to ride the carousel at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. She lives in Los Angeles. Amy Nathan is an award-winning author. Her awards and honors include a Clarion Award and a Washington Post Book of the Week. She lives in Westchester County, New York. Floyd Cooper has won the Coretta Scott King Award and Honor multiple times. He was twice nominated for the NAACP Image Award and has received numerous other awards including the Bank Street College Book of the Year Honor. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania. Read more Customers Review: You don’t know what you don’t know. When Sharon rode the carousel for the first time, she knew nothing different. She was too young to remember “before,” so it fell to her parents to explain the importance of her photo in the newspaper.A Ride to Remember helps parents explain “before” to children of all races. The idea of treating someone differently because of their color (or gender) is so foreign to my almost-6-year-old that she actually thought I was making up stories the first few times we discussed inequality. I love the backmatter at the end of A Ride to Remember. The included photographs help children put an actual face with a name. It makes things infinitely more real.A Ride to Remember is both gentle and immediate. It’s bold without being in-your-face and relatable to kids from the first page:“I love carousels. The horses come in so many colors… But no matter their colors, the horses all go at the same speed as they circle round and round. They start together. They finish together, too. Nobody is first and nobody is last. Everyone is equal when you ride a carousel.”A Ride to Remember is an important read for children, and should at least be checked out from the library if not purchased for the home.*Review based on advanced copy provided by publisher
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