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“She sighed as she realized she was tired. Not tired from work but tired of putting white people first.��

I think that these lines capture the essence of Nikki Giovanni’s picture book about Rosa Parks. Rosa is listed on Booklist Online as the winner of the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators. This picture book celebrates one of the most important figures of the Civil Rights Movement. The book portrays Rosa’s personal life as a woman and captures her political role as the civil rights icon. The book’s water color and collage illustrations are quite spectacular contributing to and extending the moving interpretation of dramatic historical events. I would recommend Rosa for intermediate grades as part of a unit on African American history and the Civil Rights Movement. The book could be implemented to discuss themes of segregation, activism, and courage.