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24 pp.
| Second Story
| September, 2018
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TradeISBN 978-1-77260-071-1$18.95
(3)
4-6
This timely nonfiction book focuses on the biographies of ten Black Canadian women whose stories are often overlooked or untold. Written for middle-grade readers, the biographies are brief but informative, and the powerful collage illustrations depict the women as warriors. This text can easily be a springboard for deeper discussion around African enslavement and racial oppression outside the U.S.
32 pp.
| Groundwood
| November, 2010
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TradeISBN 978-0-88899-779-1$18.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Richard Rudnicki.
In 1946 Nova Scotia, Viola Desmond stood up to segregation by refusing to change seats in a movie theater. This inspiring story will remind readers of Rosa Parks's conviction. Both Rudnicki's brightly colored acrylics and Warner's oral-style narration ("They took Viola to jail. Can you believe it?") are a little overdone. An illuminating endnote on African Canadian history is appended.