Short Form (All Genres)

Your Name: Lizeth Reyes

Title: Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Author:Andrea Davis Pinkney Illustrator: Brian Pinkney

Publisher/Year: Little Brown, 2010 Genre: Multicultural, Nonfiction

Summarize the content of the book –

On February 1, 1960, four college students from North Carolina A&T State University staged a
peaceful protest that became one of the defining moments in the struggle for racial equality and the
growing Civil Rights Movement. This nonfiction book tells the event in a children’s book, and
multicultural style. The use of analogy to tell a story is illustrated most effectively in this book and gets
the story interesting with history.

Explain how the book appeals to children, their interests, developmental levels, fun
illustrations etc. Give specific examples from the book:
The illustrations and representation of food and citizenry make history events easy to understand to
elementary-aged students. This is a good way to show how this historic event meant as a community
activism and how it was also nonviolence. Children in elementary will look at the illustrations and see
the pictures presented an important scene. The language is simple and clear, with a splash of tricky
words to keep them up, but the pictures explains the text in a creative way.

Rate the book 3

Explain your rating.
The books explained and retold an important event in our history. I liked how the author includes
a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement. They offer resources to learn more about what happened.
As I was reading this story, I realized that as a young student, textbooks did not provide this type
of learning. This version also gave readers information about history, but also emotions will be
developing to young readers.