Dear Mr. Rosenwald (Hardcover) by Carole Boston Weatherford

from epalaz

This is a great book about African American history and how the people came together to build a new school. The illustrations were created in gouache and colored pencil and the text was set in 14 pt. Historical FellType Roman. Although the pictures wre a little fuzzy and didn't show the people re...

from PaigeCostella

Ovella is a young girl from a small town who dreams of getting a new school. Her mother tells her she is very lucky because some children don't go to school and the ones that do have a worse school than what she has. Mr. Rosenwald agrees to help them get a new school but they must come up with th...

from sabdelaz

A good story that shows how united the African Americans are together to help their society. The protagonists are the African American people coming together holding hands to build schools for their community. Families bake apples pies to sell. They had the lot of the church up for space for the ...

from jsylve

This book is based in a little girl who lived in the rural south where schooling for African American children was very hard. Booker T Washington and Julius Rosenwald gave money and required the town to raise money for new schools for the children to learn.

from efried5

17. In my opinion, "Dear Mr. Rosenwald" by Carole Boston Weatherford is a great book to have in the classroom. The book brings historical relevance to classrooms as it encompasses the impact of the development of Rosenwald schools for African Americans in the rural south during the 1920s. The lan...