Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Other authorsBrian Pinkney (Artist)

Hardcover, 2020

Call number

JF PIN

Collection

Children's/YA Fiction

Genres

Children's Books

Publication

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2020), Edition: Illustrated, 224 pages

Description

Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.

User reviews

LibraryThing member rgruberexcel

RGG: Quite wonderful, but hard to place. For readers who are adventurous in their reading genre--the complex and diverse format, the poetic language, and the historical references will make this a difficult read. The characters' age ranges from 12-18, so despite a cover that presents young, can be

for older readers. Reading Interest: 9-14

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LibraryThing member rgruberexcel

for older readers. Reading Interest: 9-14

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LibraryThing member rgruberexcel

for older readers. Reading Interest: 9-14

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LibraryThing member jennybeast

It took me a while to ease into this one, despite the excellent narrators in the audio book. By the end I was swept away, and really, blown away -- the messages delivered all along are strong. The messages at the end, about telling your own truth, and the importance of using your voice were

amazingly powerful. Parts reminded me strongly of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry -- not jut because of the time period and the setting, but something in the language and the cadence of the characters. The book feels like a carefully woven tapestry of African American family experience and could not be more effective at pointing out how much further we need to go. There are some graphically violent moments. There are parts that are hard to listen to and some that are transcendent. It's a really neat trick to have such a powerful written tribute to oral history, but I think Pinkney pulls it off.

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