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    Coretta Scott
    Coretta Scott
    Coretta Scott
    Audiobook6 minutes

    Coretta Scott

    Written by Ntozake Shange

    Narrated by Phylicia Rashad

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    About this audiobook

    This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeston Woods
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9780545786119
    Coretta Scott
    Author

    Ntozake Shange

    Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a renowned playwright, poet, theater director, and novelist. Her body of work includes Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Some Sing Some Cry with Ifa Bayeza, and the posthumous Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance and I Am an Old Woman. Among her numerous accolades are the Langston Hughes Medal for Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 Shelley Memorial Award and three AUDELCO awards. Ms. Shange’s work has been nominated for a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.

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    • 4/5
      Kadir Nelson illustrates Ntozake Shange’s brief poem about Coretta Scott King and her contribution to the civil rights movement. This book heavily relies on the illustrators images to convey the author’s point. Shange doesn’t tell an elaborate tale with her words, but the succinct statements combined with the powerful realistic illustrations by Nelson make elaboration unnecessary.
    • 4/5
      The pictures alone made you want to keep reading this book, however, I did find that the book didn't say much about Coretta, besides the fact that she found her strength through God to fight the injustice. I wanted to know more about her. It did address the Million Man March which would be something wonderful to read to older students during this time when they are having so many marches around the world today. I read more about Coretta because after reading the book I wanted to know more about what she actually did beyond singing. After Rosa Parks, her husband and her committed to nonviolent resistance (an extremely important topic to bring to children). She used her voice to spread her word. Up until her death in 2006, she spent her days speaking out for racial justice and to educate others. A woman to be admired right beside her husband.
    • 4/5
      Genre: Non-FictionAudience: 1-5This was a great book about Coretta Scott, the activist and wife of MLK jr. It is written in the form of poetry and has beautiful illustrations. I will use this book in class while talking about the Civil Rights movement and also during Black History Month.
    • 4/5
      This lovely picture book (with illustrations by Kadir Nelson) putatively honors Coretta Scott, but I felt it was more about her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. (An afterward for adults is, however, focused more on Coretta.) The book doesn’t cover at all the period after King’s assassination, when Coretta took on a leadership role, founding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, becoming an anti-apartheid activist, campaigning against homophobia, and actively participating in the women’s movement. The fact that over 14,000 people attended her funeral in 2006, including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and their wives, attests to the great importance of Mrs. King herself, and the esteem in which she was held. Although the text of this book is lovely, and the pictures outstanding, I hope to see additional books for children that recognize this important woman for her own achievements separate from those of her husband.
    • 4/5
      The author managed to mix verse, nonfiction, and biography. It was a different way to tell a biography and I think any student, teacher, or reader would find it refreshing.
    • 3/5
      Told in lilting poetry, the story traces Coretta's childhood of segregation through her marriage to Martin Luther King, Jr., and combined campaign for Civil Rights. She lived for freedom and for non-violent resistance. She carried on after her husband was assasinated.
    • 4/5
      Pictures by award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson.Text by poet Ntozake Shange. Excellence. I anticipated excellence.But perhaps poets are not the best authors of picture books. I had trouble following the text and I’m a grownup. I had to think too much about the words on the page and it wasn’t because they were so rich but because the writing wandered around so much. I’d hoped for powerful words, but I found them to be wobbly.The children thought the pictures were very realistic. They were moved by the story of Coretta walking to school. The writing was a little too abstract for many of them and they weren’t clear in places about what the writer was trying to say.The poetic writing, with its whimsical sentence structure, was unclear to them.Nevertheless, they loved the sounds of the words and the beautiful pictures. They liked the pictures so much that they forgave the text for not serving them well and gave the book a high rating.A Sample:“white school busleft afunnel of duston their facesbutsongs and birds of all colorsand rich soilwhere slaves fought freedomsteadied them in the face of danger”Children’s Comments:Jayla, 5, said, "I liked the pictures."Silvana, 6, said, "I liked how she changed the laws."Abby, 5, said, "I liked them praying."Gage, 6, said, "I liked the part where they had to walk five miles to school."Jimmy, 6, said, "I liked the people gathering together in the book."Children's Ratings: 5, 1, 5, 5, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5
    • 3/5
      Coretta Scott was Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife. this book speaks of her life in sort but beautiful peotry. it begins with coretta's childhood walking five miles to school all the way to the march on Washington with MLK. the author's note tells a more in depth outline of her life as a civil rights activist alongside her husband. she was fond of singing, and the book tells of her voice to work for her cause. the pictures are amazing. kadir nelson has a gift to bring the pages to life with vivid colors and details. the book would be great to talk about the civil rights movement or martin luther king jr. also, its illustrations might make a great example of art.
    • 4/5
      "Coretta Scott" is written as lines of poetry, rather than prose. It tells the story of Coretta's life from childhood to meeting Martin Luther King Jr to her fight for civil rights. While the poetry was very beautiful, I was most impressed with the paintings by Kadir Nelson. The paintings were bright and colorful and could almost tell the story without the words.This picture book could easily be used by a middle or high school teacher during Black History Month or on a lesson about civil rights in America. The book includes a short biography of Coretta Scott King in the back, but the poetry does discuss important events like the March on Washington and ending the Jim Crow laws.