Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!

A picture-book biography of Viola Desmond, Canada's Rosa Parks, who defied an order to sit in a segregated section of a movie theater and was arrested for doing so. Now available as a trade paperback!

About the author

JODY NYASHA WARNER is a writer, human rights advisor and former librarian. She was inspired to write this book because so much African Canadian history is either not well known or not documented.

Summary

A picture-book biography of Viola Desmond, Canada's Rosa Parks, who defied an order to sit in a segregated section of a movie theater and was arrested for doing so. Now available as a trade paperback!

Foreword

REVIEW COPIES:

• Publishers Weekly


• School Library Journal


• Booklist


• Kirkus Reviews


• Horn Book

Product details

• Authors: Jody Nyasha Warner, Jody Nyasha Warner
• Assisted by: Richard Rudnicki (Illustration), Rudnicki Richard (Illustration), Richard Rudnicki Rudnicki (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 5
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2018
• EAN: 9781773060354
• ISBN: 978-1-77306-035-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 140 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Canada, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Canada / General, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Canada