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Northbound: a Train Ride Out of Segregation by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein (2020, Picture Book)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCandlewick Press

ISBN-100763696501

ISBN-139780763696504

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038694208

Product Key Features

Book TitleNorthbound: a Train Ride Out of Segregation

Number of Pages40 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicTransportation / Railroads & Trains, Historical / United States / 20th Century, People & Places / United States / African American, General, Social Themes / Friendship, Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism

IllustratorRansome, James E., Yes

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorMichael S. Bandy, Eric Stein

FormatPicture Book

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length11.6 in

Item Width10.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2020-919036

ReviewsIn these lushly illustrated watercolor and collage images, Ransome effectively captures the boys' kinship amid the senseless, racist Jim Crow laws that separate them. The bucolic landscape outside the train's windows sharply conflicts with the train conductor's removal of Michael from the White car. Backmatter addresses the laws that created this unjust travel condition, beginning in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act...Painful history portrayed honestly and beautifully to help children understand the very personal impact of racism. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The team behind Granddaddy's Turn introduces readers to the cruelty of U.S. segregation through the eyes of a child...Vivid, tightly focused watercolor portraits by Ransome straightforwardly convey the racist policy's effect on two children, and Bandy and Stein let Michael draw his own thoughtful conclusions in this narrative: "It just didn't make any sense at all." --Publishers Weekly Online (starred review) Ransome's watercolor scenes balance the details of train travel that so excited the characters (and will doubtless intrigue even a current Amtrak audience), with understated tracking of the boys' unfolding friendship...This is a good discussion starter for young listeners who may confront lines not of their making and mixed messages about crossing them. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, In these lushly illustrated watercolor and collage images, Ransome effectively captures the boys' kinship amid the senseless, racist Jim Crow laws that separate them. The bucolic landscape outside the train's windows sharply conflicts with the train conductor's removal of Michael from the White car. Backmatter addresses the laws that created this unjust travel condition, beginning in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act...Painful history portrayed honestly and beautifully to help children understand the very personal impact of racism. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Grade FromFirst Grade

Grade ToFourth Grade

SynopsisOn his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car--but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip--in the last story in a trilogy about the author's life growing up in the segregated South. Michael and his granddaddy always stop working to watch the trains as they rush by their Alabama farm on the way to distant places. One day Michael gets what he's always dreamed of: his first train journey, to visit cousins in Ohio! Boarding the train in the bustling station, Michael and his grandma follow the conductor to the car with the "colored only" sign. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the next car runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore. The two new friends happily scour the train together and play in Bobby Ray's car--until the conductor calls out "Chattanooga!" and abruptly ushers Michael back to his grandma for the rest of the ride. How could the rules be so changeable from state to state--and so unfair? Based on author Michael Bandy's own recollections of taking the train as a boy during the segregation era, this story of a child's magical first experience is intercut with a sense of baffling injustice, offering both a hopeful tale of friendship and a window into a dark period of history that still resonates today., On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car--but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip--in the last story in a trilogy about the author's life growing up in the segregated South. Michael and his granddaddy always stop working to watch the trains as they rush by their Alabama farm on the way to distant places. One day Michael gets what he's always dreamed of: his first train journey, to visit cousins in Ohio Boarding the train in the bustling station, Michael and his grandma follow the conductor to the car with the "colored only" sign. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the next car runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore. The two new friends happily scour the train together and play in Bobby Ray's car--until the conductor calls out "Chattanooga " and abruptly ushers Michael back to his grandma for the rest of the ride. How could the rules be so changeable from state to state--and so unfair? Based on author Michael Bandy's own recollections of taking the train as a boy during the segregation era, this story of a child's magical first experience is intercut with a sense of baffling injustice, offering both a hopeful tale of friendship and a window into a dark period of history that still resonates today.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.B22125No 2020