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sammueller's review
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
This is meant for youth but adults who don’t know anything about Ruby should read it too! I thought it would be a little more about her experience at the school but it is meant as a letter so it is also full of her hope for the youth and the future! The pictures are a great addition. It is a quick easy read!
throwback682's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I highly recommend everyone read this letter as an audiobook so you can hear it in Ruby’s own voice. It really reminds us that she’s not just a picture of a little girl in a history book. She’s a real live Black woman still alive today and she has a message for us.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Domestic abuse
laila4343's review
5.0
Read this to my son and we both cried, moved by the bravery of some and the hateful ignorance of others. It's a wonderful little memoir aimed at children to bring the immediacy and impact of racism to their level of understanding. Illustrated with black and white photos both from her history-making integrating of the elementary school in New Orleans in 1960 as a six year-old and from today's Black Lives Matter movement. It brings home the fact that she is very much still alive (she's my mom's age) and that this horrible time wasn't all that long ago, and that we still have work to do - and children can (and usually do) embody the change we want to see in the world as they grow.