Lasky, K. (2000). Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. (1bk)
Grades: 2nd to 4th
Awards:
2000 Parents Choice Recommended Award
Summary: This partial biography is about the incrediable story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Madam Walker was born just after slavery and orphaned when she was seven. She continued to dream of a time when she could stand with pride and confidence that she was a beautiful black woman. Although she married at fourteen and widowed by twenty, she didn’t let herself as a single parent diminish her dreams of helping women of her race. In this narrative, she prayed to God to show her the way and starting inventing hair products. She became one of the biggest and richest “colored” people of her time. She never forgot where she game from, giving back to her community.
Credibility of Author:
Although there were some gaps in Madam Walker’s story, Lasky based a much of the story on research. She obtained much of her information from A’Lelia Perry Bundles, Madam Walker’s great-great-grandaughter.
Illustator/Illustrations: Nneka Bennett used water color and pencils to illustrate this book. These illustrations are vivid and helps the reader to imagine a the time period and feelings that Madam Walker went through.
National Standards: Social Studies: Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago, The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures who Contributed to its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage Science: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Access Features: bookjacket, author’s note, headings on each page with date, epilogue, and illustrator note
My response: I really enjoyed reading this partial biography. Madam Walker was worried about not helping the African Americans even on her death bed. She was an incredible person who came so far.
How I would use this book in my classroom:
I would use this book with my students when discussing how African Americans have overcame many obstacles during the time after slavery. This would be a great book to discuss dreams and hopes for the future.
Related Text: Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull, Francie by Karen English, and The Real Mccoy by Wendy Towle
Grades: 2nd to 4th
Awards:
2000 Parents Choice Recommended Award
Summary: This partial biography is about the incrediable story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Madam Walker was born just after slavery and orphaned when she was seven. She continued to dream of a time when she could stand with pride and confidence that she was a beautiful black woman. Although she married at fourteen and widowed by twenty, she didn’t let herself as a single parent diminish her dreams of helping women of her race. In this narrative, she prayed to God to show her the way and starting inventing hair products. She became one of the biggest and richest “colored” people of her time. She never forgot where she game from, giving back to her community.
Credibility of Author:
Although there were some gaps in Madam Walker’s story, Lasky based a much of the story on research. She obtained much of her information from A’Lelia Perry Bundles, Madam Walker’s great-great-grandaughter.
Illustator/Illustrations: Nneka Bennett used water color and pencils to illustrate this book. These illustrations are vivid and helps the reader to imagine a the time period and feelings that Madam Walker went through.
National Standards: Social Studies: Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago, The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures who Contributed to its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage Science: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Access Features: bookjacket, author’s note, headings on each page with date, epilogue, and illustrator note
My response: I really enjoyed reading this partial biography. Madam Walker was worried about not helping the African Americans even on her death bed. She was an incredible person who came so far.
How I would use this book in my classroom:
I would use this book with my students when discussing how African Americans have overcame many obstacles during the time after slavery. This would be a great book to discuss dreams and hopes for the future.
Related Text: Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull, Francie by Karen English, and The Real Mccoy by Wendy Towle
4 comments:
Jennifer,
I loved the way you presented this book the other night in class. It really made me want to read this book. I've always heard of Madame Walker, but I didn't know there was a children's book written about her.
Debbie
I enjoyed your presentation the other night in class! I do a unit each year during Black History month on African American inventors and this will be a perfect book to go with that unit!
I had never heard of Sarah Walker. This sounds like a really interesting book to read! It would be great to read this during Black History Month. I know kids would like to learn about somebody knew.
There is no doubt in my mind that this will be a book that I read to my students the first week of school. They will absolutely love a book about someone that is like them that grew up to do such wonderful things and made such a huge impact on society!
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