The Blanket Where Violet Sits by Allan Wolf, ill. Could be a cool pairing, particularly if you add in My Papi Has a Motorcycle. Reminds me of a similar picture book bio about a woman and her motorcycle from a year or two ago called Girl On a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky and Julie Morstad about Anne-France Dautheville. Still, the sheer amount of freedom you feel reading this is fantastic. Certainly she did have some badass adventures as a dispatch rider in WWII, the only woman in an all-Black unit. I think he made the right choices with this story. As he himself says in an author’s note at the end, finding info on Bessie was tricky partly because she made up stuff and partly because there just wasn’t a lot of info to be found. Smith the chance to tell a story without relying on false quotes (my greatest dislike) and gets the point across when, truth be told, there’s not a lot of information to go off of. I do! One advantage of the rhyming verse of this book is that it allows Mr. Now you might not think it but from time to time I get requests for rhyming nonfiction. Of course Smith is doing one better by also making the ding dang thing rhyme. I kind of love that we live in an era where we can hear a cool story on a podcast or run across a social media video about some hitherto unsung hero of the past and then just turn that person’s life into a picture book bio.
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