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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.<p></p>The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children to school with her. Told with Robert Coles' powerful narrative and dramatically illustrated by George Ford, Ruby's story of courage, faith, and hope continues to resonate more than 60 years later.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>Praise for <i>The Story of Ruby Bridges</i></b></p><p>Ford's moving watercolour paintings... capture the physical warmth of Ruby's family and community, the immense powers against her, and her shining inner strength. -- <i>Booklist</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>George Ford has illustrated many acclaimed books for children, including <i>Ray Charles</i> by Sharon Bell Mathis, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and <i>Paul Robeson</i> by Eloise Greenfield, winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Mr. Ford lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, New York. <br/> Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for volumes two and three of the five-volume work Children of Crisis, Robert Coles is the author of many distinguished books for adults. A research psychiatrist at Harvard University, Dr. Coles lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.

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