Only Passing Through
by Anne Rockwell
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Author: Anne RockwellIllustrator: R. Gregory Gregory Christie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-10
ISBN: 044041766X
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
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Book Review: Bobblehead Sojourner Truth
Summary: 3 Stars
Sojourner Truth is a fascinating person of stature and dignity. In this book, Anne Rockwell writes an inspirational, thought-provoking biography.
Her book deserves a re-do on the illustrations. These are disfiguring, portraying her as freakish and ugly, with a distorted head and hands. Is this a joke?
What are kids going to remember more? The words in the book that tell about her impressive life, or the illustrations that show Sojourner Truth as a Bobblehead? Why ridicule her this way? You only get one chance to make a first impression... what a wasted opportunity.
The best illustration in the book is the end paper, which quotes a speech she made:
"Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame therefore because my skin is black? Does it not cast a reproach on our Maker to despise a part of His children because He has been pleased to give them a black skin? Indeed, children, it does; and your teachers ought to tell you so, and root up, if possible, the great sin of prejudice against color from from your minds. Now Children, remember what Sojourner Truth has told you."
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