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A review by lbandoch
She Persisted: Claudette Colvin by Chelsea Clinton, Lesa Cline-Ransome
4.0
I’m so glad this is a series! I liked the original picture book, but I felt like elaboration was needed on historical figures. This series is great for kids who like the “who was” or “who is” books.
The chapters are short and the sentences are simple. It’s written in a narrative format that will appeal to young readers. My biggest thing is that is stopped too soon. I realize that Claudette didn’t become the face of a civil rights movement for a reason (she became pregnant soon afterwards, and an unmarried woman in the south with a potentially white lover would have been disastrously scandalous). BUT I feel like a follow up chapter on how the fight for civil rights continued after the story ended would have been nice, as I often feel many civil-rights era children’s books give the misinterpretation that everything was fixed.
But overall, a great book to add to any collection!
The chapters are short and the sentences are simple. It’s written in a narrative format that will appeal to young readers. My biggest thing is that is stopped too soon. I realize that Claudette didn’t become the face of a civil rights movement for a reason (she became pregnant soon afterwards, and an unmarried woman in the south with a potentially white lover would have been disastrously scandalous). BUT I feel like a follow up chapter on how the fight for civil rights continued after the story ended would have been nice, as I often feel many civil-rights era children’s books give the misinterpretation that everything was fixed.
But overall, a great book to add to any collection!