Jill C. Wheeler

This is a very informative biography of Rosa Parks that details the many wondrous things she accomplished in her life. It discusses her beginnings as a young girl growing up in Alabama with her family on her grandfathers farm, to becoming a national figure and heroine. Parks was taught by her parents to value her education so that she would never have to cook or clean for someone else. In valuing her education, she received her teaching certification. She even registered to vote numerous times in order to ensure her voice and vote mattered. She fought past the prejudice surrounding her and became a figure of freedom and forward-thinking.… (meer)

This biography about Walter Dean Myers is very similar to the other biographies by this author, Jill C. Wheeler. It is informative and has great, real pictures of Myers and places he lived. Reading his story, it is evident that he had a hard life. I enjoy seeing that he writes things that he could have related to as a child because other children may relate as well.
I have the same complaints about this book as the autobiography about Nikki Grimes by Wheeler. It is hard to follow and the words are sometimes complex for the age level. This book is very informative if someone is trying to find out more about Walter Dean Myers's life.… (meer)