Sit-In
How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down

Don't treat people like the hole in a donut (i.e. invisible). Don't segregate but integrate. Another powerful story from Audible's "Hear My Story" collection. "Practising peace while others showed hatred is hard" but this story shows it can be done. A lot has changed since 1960 but more change needs......more

This history book is a wonderful collaboration by a wife (story) and husband (illustrator) team. It relates the famous occurrence of the four young African-American men, who in 1960 sat down at a Woolworth’s counter and tried to get served at a whites only segregated restaurant, and how their act in......more

A great message of the sit-in at Woolworths. I like how the author uses the structure of a menu and reflects it in the narrative. A recipe against racism.......more

Author/illustrator team Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (also wife and husband), who have collaborated on such titles as Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride and the 1999 Caldecott Honor Book Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, once again turn to the African-American ex......more

One of the protesters arrested in 1963 in Greensboro went on to have a grandson who was our tour guide at the International Civil Rights Museum. I asked him out of all the books he would recommend I read and this is one he suggested. It’s well written and speaks to kids but doesn’t mince words. We a......more