The Story of Ruby Bridges

Title: The Story of Ruby Bridges
Author: Robert Coles
Illustrator: George Ford

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Story of Ruby Bridges is a children picture book that discusses the events that a black woman named Ruby Bridges had gone through during the year of 1960. Ruby was the first African American that was aloud to go to a white school. The bad part was, that most of the white kids were raised on segregation of the races. Therefore, the white families and children were terrible to Ruby Bridges. The main thing that got Ruby Bridges through was her faith in God. Every morning on the way to school Ruby would pray for the people who hated her. Ruby remained calm during extremely hard times, and did not react poorly to anybody, even when they deserved it!

I would read this book to a third grade class during history class. I would enjoy reading this to the class because it has so many valuable topics. Such as trusting in God during all things (if I am at a private school teaching), and that in today's world we are much nicer people and we do not judge people on their skin color or for any other differences a child may have.