With gorgeous art from award-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis, The First Step is an inspiring look at the story of four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.
Susan E. Goodman is the author of more than thirty nonfiction books for children, including How Do You Burp in Space?; See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes, and the Race to the White House; All in Just One Cookie, an ALA Notable Book; and On This Spot, a Washington Post Top Picture Book of the Year. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. www.susangoodmanbooks.com E. B. Lewis is the acclaimed illustrator of more than fifty books for children, including the Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon and several Coretta Scott King Award winners, such as Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman and Bat Boy and His Violin. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey. www.eblewis.com
An important exploration of the struggle for equality and education
in this country.
*School Library Journal*
With Lewis’s stirring watercolors that astutely capture the emotion
of history, this book is an eloquent, inspiring reminder that “the
march toward justice is a long, twisting journey."
*The New York Times*
An excellent and careful telling of a lesser-known landmark case in
the Civil Rights movement . . . E.B. Lewis’ watercolors add to the
story and help readers feel the resolve and confidence of the
people involved . . . would certainly add to a discussion on civil
rights with older students and help them understand that there were
many players in the civil rights journey and that each step was
built upon the past. Highly Recommended.
*School Library Connection*
Goodman’s real achievement here, though, is in the end matter, in
which she not only expands on the lives of the major players but
also talks at length of her research process and the educated
guesses she made to fill in Sarah’s reactions. Although the first
impulse will be to put this story to curricular use in civil rights
units, this could be of excellent service as an investigation into
how a history book gets written.
*BCCB*
A stirring and inspiring story, this one is an excellent addition
to classroom and library bookshelves.
*Bookpage*
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