The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Wiles, Deborah

Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer

32 pp. | Atheneum | June, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-2298-7 $17.99
New ed. (2001)

(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. This edition includes a new foreword by Wiles.

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