Let me start off by saying how much I loved reading this, its so important even though it was a short read I feel like anyone and everyone should know about these events and seeing how it can change someone for the better as we saw with the taxi driver and passenger. Not just that but also shows that we need to start being more respectful and trying to listen and learn instead of attack without knowing what someone is feeling or experiencing just because we haven’t seen it or gone through it ourselves. It was an eye opener for me and I want to continue to learn more about it.

"Rosa Parks" is a graphic novel retelling of Rosa Parks' life with a specific focus on why her story matters today. I found the modern-day beginning to this story a little stunted and uninteresting but appreciated the rest of the story. Anyone curious about the Civil Rights movement would love this book.

I really enjoyed the art style of this. It appeared as though the images were watercolored and I don't typically see that when reading graphic novels.

This is a good starting point for middle grade students to be introduced to Rosa Parks.

It doesn't paint a rosy colored, white washed version of her story in which she's a mild mannered older woman who was too tired to give up her seat. In reality, she was an active participant in the civil rights movement, and her choice was an intentional, non-violent protest that helped to spark a massive boycott. The sacrifices Black folks had to make during the boycott was explored and how they supported the movement as a community.

Often with historical figures we often present such a narrow, one dimensional view of them. Tokenizing and rolling them out as an example. I appreciated that there was an epilogue at the end that dove a bit deeper into what happened to Rosa after the boycott because her life was very difficult afterwards including poverty, debt, chronic illness and job insecurity, and through all that she still continued to fight for equal rights.

***Thank you to Papercutz & NBM Publishing for providing me with the eBook for free via NetGalley for an unbiased review.

What I loved about #Rosa was that it brought current events into historical events. It included Claudette Colvin who is normally left out. The illustrations helped tell the story but didn't distract. I think this would be a great addition to a middle school or high school library. Thanks #netgalley for the preview.

This is a Graphic Novel about Rosa Parks. I love the Rosa Parks story, and I have always love her story. This Graphic Novel I do not love the pictures, and I think the pictures is a big part of a graphic novel's reading experience. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

The art in this book was well done. I however found the writing in spots to be a bit dry and overly preachy. I was also hoping the story would include the many things Rosa Parks did after the events on the bus. I was also hoping it would talk about those that have been influenced since the event even to this day. Had they done this I think would it would have impacted so many readers instead of just putting that information in the notes at the end of the book.

I thought this was a good historical fiction graphic novel about Rosa Parks and the start of the bus boycott and people getting into the civil rights movement. I like how this starts off in current day and a young man is in a taxi going to a club and the man who was driving was telling him about how when he was a boy how he knew Rosa Parks and told the story about what she did and how she helped spark the movement. I also thought the art style was great too.

This is a beautifully told tale of Rosa Parks - it's her story and so much more. It shows the interconnection of life and people and history. I LOVE all the water colored texture of this graphic novel. It was well designed, well researched and the color scheme was tasteful and classy.

When a famous celebrity wearing a "I can't breathe" t-shirt gets stuck in traffic with a taxi driver who likes to tell stories and talk history, the magic of this graphic novel unfolds. This is a story ABOUT Rosa Parks as told from the descendant of a friend of hers. This story touches on her life before, during and after she was arrested on the bus. It only briefly touches on the trauma she endured in her lifetime, choosing instead to focus on her legacy and inspiration. I did learn a little bit more about Rosa Parks because of this novel.

Highly recommend it as a complimentary text to any history unit on Rosa Parks and Civil Rights. A must in any 4-9th grade classroom library's graphic novel shelf.

I enjoyed this graphic novel, the art style was really good and the message was great. It’s such an important story to read about

Thank you to NetGalley and Papercutz for an eARC of this book.

I think a graphic novel about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott is a great idea. Especially with a tie-in to modern day events. I am just not sure this particular book gave the history and people involved the treatment it deserves.

3.5 stars. Rosa Parks and how she made history. The story starts in 2014 when a taxi driver tells a story from his childhood to a young boy. His story stretches from 1952 to 1956 and is about Rosa’s protest on the bus, her arrest, and her role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

I liked the story. In the beginning, the boy’s ignorance quite surprised me. I would expect he knew the basic historical facts and why he wears the t-shirt.

Art is ok, maybe not my favorite style. Gray and brown colors are dominant and give us the feeling from the 1950s. All the faces are almost the same shade. So it was not immediately obvious to me who was white. But this could be intentional to emphasize that people of all colors are the same and equal. I also confused mother and daughter a few times.

Thanks to Papercutz for the ARC and this opportunity! This is a voluntary review, and all opinions are my own.

Big thanks to Net Galley and Papercutz publishing for allowing me to read and review this incredible story! This is the story of Rosa Parks told within a beautifully illustrated graphic novel. Rosa Parks journey is something everyone should read and learn about. They did a beautiful job artistically explaining all of the hardships she endured and just how hard she fought for basic human rights

A graphic novel begins with a man telling a young adult the story of Rosa Parks.
I enjoyed the artwork and how the story drew comparisons about the fight for civil rights and racism from present-day events/tragedies like Eric Garber (noted with the t-shirt) and how it connected with the older man's life and family history to the movement.

There was a lot to cover in this short book, and it didn't show or display it all, but it did well!

A huge thanks to the publisher for my complimentary copy.

Rosa Parks is an inspiring story told an interesting way and with a new perspective. Enjoyed this page turning,reflective and inspiring read that should be required reading for everyone.

This book definitely made me think and discuss with others which is definitely good. I had a hard time understanding our main characters in the beginning. As someone who grew up knowing black history it was hard to picture a black person who didn’t. After speaking to others I realize many others either did not have that opportunity or didn’t know the importance and this book is for them. This book is about them and the story of rosa parks. We all need to know our history to make a change!

"For such a time as this" applies to this timely graphic novel about Rosa Parks.

Told in present day, a cab driver teaches a young man just why the words on his shirt "I can't breathe" [Eric Garner 1970 -2014] mean more than the young man realizes and tells him the story of the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the rise of the amazing and strong Rosa Parks, who with her quiet voice, calm demeanor and belief that the laws of having to give up her seat to a white person after she too had paid for her ticket, started the ball rolling for deep and lasting change both in the south and in America in general.

In the end, the boy learns something and sets out to learn more, to educate others, and to be come an activist himself. It is a moving story, complimented by gorgeous illustrations, that, in this time of severe unrest, is timely and much needed. The stories and battles fought and won in the past need to be remembered and told again and again so we will not give up the fight and the hope and the dream of freedom and equality for all, no matter your skin color.

Thank you to NetGalley, Mariapaola Pesce, Matteo Mancini [Illustrator] and Papercutz/NBM Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This story started with indifference and a sense of freedom of speech on the part of a youthful person, who was sitting in a cab. Before him, few others were also shown but they're not of much significance. It is to him the cab driver narrated the story seeing the tshirt he was wearing (I can't breathe) which knowing the actual meaning of it, the struggles it took on behalf of people he never met for him.
Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat to a white person when it was a law, because she paid fair price for the ticket thus deserved to sit.
And that started the revolution.

It was well-illustrated, i loved how the light effect was shown, it was beautiful.
And the story was more horrifying than inspiring because it was too unjust, to survive in that time was full of struggles yet they've had to have the utmost patience because they may be citizens of America but they weren't deemed equal.
It's a good book to get the story if you're short on time.

Thank you for the advanced copy of it!

Last year I’ve read another graphic novel about historical events and I think these ones are the best to put context into the history and show important events. I had no idea about the background of this story, and I appreciate all the work from the author since it explained and showed everything, as cruel as it was. I really liked this one, and I hope books like this would be mandatory in school because everyone can read it and understand it better, and obviously enjoy much more.

A well-meaning book, but one that may get lost for lack of subtitle, and one that doesn't make itself nearly as successful as it should anyway. The hand-crafted artwork pulls away from being colourful, either with the intention or the result that a lot of people just look grey – either that or it's a book that just wants to show the 1950s as completely dour. What was much worse however was the opening – a modern-set scene where an elderly New York crabby cabbie wants his young customer to know what the "I Can't Breathe" T-shirt the youngster is wearing actually means. It's unnecessary, and it really just riles the reader from the start, giving a feeling of antagonism and bickering and lack of togetherness nobody like Rosa Parks would wish to live through.

Also, it would appear quite obvious at the end that the young punk doesn't pay for his cab, although that may well be the intentional loop back to the 1950s. For this is, and always was, a story much wider than just one woman saying she wouldn't get up and shift bus seat because a white woman wanted a seat and allegedly deserved the ones nearer the door. For in sheer disgust at white cops doing what the law told them to do, thousands of shop staff, seamstresses, factory workers and domestics all boycotted the bus network, leaving it running at a huge loss, and leaving them relying on the good hearts of other drivers. Luckily said uber-men were able to be charitable enough, taking no or little payment, until the law changed.

Dr King and Rosa Parks act as equals in this story, almost, with her inspiration for the bus strike leading to his taking care of how people reacted en masse both then and when the laws changed. It is a valid look at peaceful protest, with nothing been thrown bar the accusation the law was an ass. Which makes it doubly annoying, to repeat, that the opening has people at each other's throats. Is the moral that knowing about Parks makes a pacifist out of everyone? Clearly not as the book is 'narrated' by the cabbie, and even if that were the case this isn't that distinctive a way of learning the story.