Ruby tête haute
(Ruby holds her head high) Book not yet available in English
Summary:
Taking Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With as her starting point, a teacher tells her class the story of the girl in the painting, Ruby Bridges. Ruby was a six-year-old girl in Louisiana in 1960 when she became the first black girl to attend an all-white school and found herself at the centre of a violent political struggle for racial equality.
Edited by: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Comment:
A powerful retelling of the story of Ruby Bridges in a first-person narrative that creates a real sense of presence for the reader. The large-format illustrations are a series of paintings illustrating the violence of the emotions, words, and actions that suffuse her courageous account of true-life events. The fight against discrimination is embodied by brave, exemplary female figures – Ruby herself, her mother, Mrs. Eisenhower, and Barbara Henry, the teacher who kept teaching no matter what. The book was published in association with Amnesty International.