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This story walks in paperback. Pub Date: 2008 09 Pages: 40 in Publisher: Greenwillow Books This story begins with shoes This story is On the all for true And walks And walks To the blues Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it. her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help one another get where they needed to go. Some started taxis. some rode bikes. but they all walked and walked. With dogged feet. With dog-tired feet. With boycott feet. With boycott blues. And. after 382 days of walking. they walked Jim Crow right out of town .... Andrea Davis Pinkney and ian Pinkney present a poignant. blues-infused tribute to the men and women of the Montgomery bus boycott. who refused to give up until they got justice.
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Andrea Davis Pinkney is the author of many acclaimed picture books and young adult novels. She received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award for Let It Shine. Her collaborations with her husband, Brian Pinkney, include Peggony-Po; Sleeping Cutie; Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa; Dear Benjamin Banneker; and the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra. She is a children's book editor at a major publishing company. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherGreenwillow
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0060821191
- ISBN 13 9780060821197
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages40
- IllustratorPinkney J. Brian
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pinkney, Brian (illustrator). Illustrations and rhythmic text recall the December, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. 17,500 first printing. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 123677467
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