A review by bookworm_baggins
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford

5.0

Read aloud to Emma and Will. I picked this up expecting to read 4 or 5 of the short selections and we ended up reading the entire book in one day over the course of two sittings. As free verse novels go, this one wasn’t the most poetic I’ve read, though it did have some standout selections. However, the style lent itself well to the topic, gradually drawing the reader into what it meant to be a black man wanting to serve in WWII. My kids (11 and 9) were skeptical at first and ended up really enjoying listening and learned a lot in the process. A lot of important history was brought to their level. The length was perfect and worked so well as a read aloud.