A Sweet Smell of Roses (Paperback)

from Madison94

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was about the civil rights movement and the illustrations in this book were more interesting than most of the other books I have seen. I loved how all the drawings were drawn in black and white and with pencil. It aided in understanding the story as a whole due ...

from umsoechildlit

This story is about two African American sisters who attend a civil rights march where they hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak and return home to tell their mother about the day's events. All of the illustrations in this picture story book are done in black and white with red accents. For example,...

from ghimbert

This is a powerful story about the civil rights movement told through the eyes of children. It is so often that political issues are dealt with solely by adults, but in the case of the Civil Rights Movement children were affected just as much. This is also a good book to introduce the idea of sym...

from Pangle

Minnie and her sister sneak past their Mama's door, pass through the sweet smell of roses that fills the air after a nighttime rain, and walk downtown...there, everybody waits to march. As the young girls stand in a crowd of people who are marching, clapping and singing for freedom, they smell th...

from Mdierd1

A Sweet Smell of Roses By Angela Johnson (2007) I liked A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson for three reasons. First, I liked the illustrations in the book. Specifically, Velasquex's brilliant pencil work illuminates the emotions of the characters in the book. Also, I liked how Velasquex inc...