Fighting with Love
The Legacy of John Lewis
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Five starred reviews!
An ALA Notable Children’s Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year
The “informative, resounding” (Booklist, starred review), and “inspiring” (The Horn Book, starred review) story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader John Lewis comes to life in this compelling and beautifully told, “excellent” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) nonfiction picture book by the award-winning team Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome.
John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights when he was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a movement that changed the nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy live on.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Employing quotations from their book's subject, married collaborators the Cline-Ransomes chart the life of civil rights activist and politician John Lewis (1940–2020) from his Alabama childhood, in which, before he "was old enough to read the word ‘love' in his Bible, he could feel it all around him." Beginning with the family's "sun-beaten, sweat-soaked, hunchbacked farming" labors, the creators offer a thoroughly contextualized account of the racial segregation Lewis experienced, his work in nonviolent resistance at the Nashville chapter of the NAACP, his involvement with the Freedom Riders, and his famously standing "for everyone who needed someone to stand up for what was right" on Selma, Ala.'s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Via pencil sketched on patterned paper, collage-style visuals contribute dimension to this well-researched love letter to a significant figure who believed that "nonviolence is love in action." Back matter includes an author's note and list of quote sources. Ages 4–8.
