“Back of the Bus” by Aaron Reynolds
"[Rosa] It’s a hot Alabama day, and it sure feels good to sit down on this here bus. There’s a little boy in the back playing with his marble… sweet thing, keeps rolling up to the front every time the bus stops. He best be careful lest someone slip on that marble. The bus stops again, and that grumpy old bus driver tells me to get up for the white folks. He says to move on to the back where we belong. Who says we belong on the back of the bus… some silly law about blacks and whites being separated. Well, I’ll tell you something. I’m not getting up today. I’m not moving and there’s nothin that bus driver can do about it. I see some folks giving me angry looks, even some colored folks - but I’m not movin, not no more. It just ain’t right."
"[Rosa] It’s a hot Alabama day, and it sure feels good to sit down on this here bus. There’s a little boy in the back playing with his marble… sweet thing, keeps rolling up to the front every time the bus stops. He best be careful lest someone slip on that marble. The bus stops again, and that grumpy old bus driver tells me to get up for the white folks. He says to move on to the back where we belong. Who says we belong on the back of the bus… some silly law about blacks and whites being separated. Well, I’ll tell you something. I’m not getting up today. I’m not moving and there’s nothin that bus driver can do about it. I see some folks giving me angry looks, even some colored folks - but I’m not movin, not no more. It just ain’t right."
Learn all about a fictional account of Rosa Parks' famous story, the day she protested the injustice of segregation on buses, from the perspective of a little boy. I've presented the story from Rosa’s perspective, but this story tells about it from the little boy’s perspective. Very awesome illustrations.
"The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt
This is a different kind of protest book, a very silly one, about some crayons who are tired of being singled out, mistreated, ignored, or pigeon-holed into a certain type of drawing. Each of the crayons in Duncan's crayon box writes Duncan a letter, outlining their various concerns. Duncan reads each letter patiently, and brainstorms a way to make all the crayons happy, so that he can get back to the serious business of coloring. Will Duncan be able to come up with a compromise that will make all the crayons happy? You'll just have to read it to find out.
