Tar Beach

 

Title: Tar Beach
Author: Faith Ringgold
Published By: Crown Publishers

While I was reading this book, I really enjoyed it. I honestly love the artistic and detailed pictures the illustrator chose for this book. I think this book is mainly about a girl who uses her imagination to step away from her tragedies for a while. I believe that that technique should be used by other children, it's a good method to use. You accept that life isn't going so well, yet you don't let that affect you and be optimistic about it, instead. She first begins by lifting herself and flying on top of George Washington Bridge where she grasped the moment and saw her mommy, daddy, and her baby brother all together. This little girl shows the struggles that her family go through, especially how her dad cannot work in the Union, yet she dreams positively and has a dream of her father to become the owner of the Union. Towards the end of the book she has her baby brother flying with her, which I thought to be a great ending because she encouraged her baby brother to know how to handle bad things in life, and live the moment. This is especially true today in this society, we are unemployed and things are not getting better things seem to be getting worse. We have children in our school system that live in motels or even worse are homeless, children that go to bed hungry and don't have clean clothes. This might encourage those children that are struggling with these issues and educate some of the more fortunate students.