Beautifully written and beautifully illustrated. Another remarkable book written by Weatherford. Unspeakable tells the little known story of the Tulsa Massacre, often referred to as the Tulsa Race Riot. Using "Once upon a time," throughout the poetry, evokes the mythical quality of this true story denied the light of day until 70+ years after the fact. I would highly recommend everyone, young and old read this story. I will recommend this book be ordered for our library, and highlight it in a social justice reading group/program.

A powerful picture book telling children the story of a dark time in America's history. With stunning illustrations this book portrays that dark time in an easy to understand but not whitewashed manner.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lerner Publishing Group for kindly providing me with a digital copy of this book for review.
I loved history at school. I still love history now as an adult. What I realise now as an adult is that the history I was taught at school was for the majority only representative of people in history that looked like me (white). We covered slavery in a very small way, and I also did a module on the American Wild West. I’m not kidding, that was where the diversity ended. So now I’m making up for those past failings, and I’m trying to educate myself and my children on a wider range of history, that covers people of different races, faiths, sexualities, disabilities etc. I’m delighted that I’m seeing more books like this one on the market, or being more widely marketed. I had heard of the Tulsa race riots but I didn’t know much about them. I think this is a great starting place and I will definitely be researching more after this. I think it was sensitively done given the intended young audience, but I don’t think the message has been dampened down too much. The art work is stunning, particularly the facial expression. It’s almost uncomfortable to look some of the drawings in the eye, particularly the drawings of the young children who seem to ask you the reader why this was allowed to happened to them, which of course we have no answer for. Definitely recommend.

This was a really moving book and I will admit I did not know too much about it before I read the blurb and picked this one up. I do live in the UK so this would not generally be something that is taught in our schools but even so, after reading the book, this is clearly a story that needs to be talked about.

I loved the illustrations in the book, they really brought the book to life and you could really feel for the people that lived in the community. It is heart-breaking to read what happened and I can only hope that we soon manage to eradicate the differences but it will take some time.

It is 5 stars from me for this one, a book that needs to be read in schools and be available in all libraries so that this is never forgotten

The Tulsa Race Massacre is something I never heard of till this year. I wanted to learn more about it and this book was a great introduction to the topic. I would recommend this book for all schools to purchase for the library because it helps students realize that history had many dark moments and it is up to us to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself.
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