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Summary/Thoughtful Reflection:
Rosa, written for upper elementary (and higher) readers, tells the story of Rosa Parks and her historic bus ride. However, in this particular text, we truly MEET Rosa: a talented seamstress (heading home after a long day of sewing dresses), a wife (heading home planning to make a meatloaf dinner for her husband), a member of the Women's Political Council ("tired of 'separate' and definitely tired of 'not equal'"). Often in our history books and/or biographical texts of Rosa Parks, we read the facts of the bus ride; the events leading up to it, as well as what followed, are usually left out. Here we meet the TRUE Rosa, as well as the community of people who felt the same way. She was one woman who started a movement for change. By ripping textured and patterned paper and combining it with sketches and painting, Bryan Collier creates a collage of illustrations that depicts Rosa's experience in a sense of painful hopefulness. Readers do not sense fear or anger, just a confident determination for change.