A review by laila4343
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges

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.