204 reviews for:

Blanc autour

Wilfrid Lupano

4.17 AVERAGE

julz341000's review

4.5

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mona_te's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

mpatshi's review

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Canterbury, Connecticut, 1832: a charming female boarding school has found success among the locals, with two dozen girls enrolled. Some in town question the purpose of educating young girls—but surely there’s no harm in trying? At least not until the Prudence Crandall School announces its plans to start accepting black students. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery in the United States, in the so-called “free” North, these students will be met by a wave of hostility that puts the future of the school in question, and their very lives in peril. Even in the land of the free, not all of America’s children are welcome.

Great artwork and a wonderful retelling of true events.
4 stars for the comic itself plus an added star for the further information in the back provided by the Crandall school museum.

cynthiak's review

4.0

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Une BD très réussie. Les dessins et les couleurs sont juste waouh et le thème est "oh, mais je ne savais pas ça".

angelagm's review against another edition

4.5

challenging inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lilou_pilou's review

3.5

informative inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

msmori's review

4.0

informative inspiring sad

shirin_mandi's review against another edition

5.0

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4.5
1832 in Canterbury, African Americans are FREE but have no civil rights. A small female boarding school was preparing to welcome its first black students.
Twenty colored girls can board at Miss Crandall's school. A law designed to shut her school down, she went to jail for a few days when she refused to pay. She tried hard for their school to become legal.
The parents are scared to send their kids to school but try changing their children's destiny. Sarah seeks the why and the how, and Eliza is the first student who arrived. In the meanwhile, slowly the school filled and people in town get more and more furious.
I liked the colors and pictures. This was a beautiful, heartbreaking, and sort of funny story about how people can become blind and unkind to each other. Highly Recommended.

Thanks to Netgalley, I have given an honest review of White All Around by Script by Wilfrid Lupano & art by Stéphane Fert.

bushia's review

4.0

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lemoonade's review

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes