The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Wiles, Deborah

Freedom Summer

32 pp. | Atheneum/Schwartz | January, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83016-5 $$16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. In 1964, two young friends--one white, one black--find the town pool being filled with tar to avoid enforced integration. Their disappointment is palpable--and galvanizing. John Henry decides to enter a previously forbidden store, and the friends join arms and go in together. The text, though concise, is full of nuance, and the oil paintings shimmer with the heat of the South in summer.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001