We Are The Ship by Kadir Nelson is a non-fiction picture book that chronicles the rise and fall of the Negro League Baseball. It documents from the creative vision of Rube Foster to Jackie Robinson breaking into the Major League and the downfall afterwards. Through the struggles of racism, this book shows how African-Americans banned together to create a strong and thriving community around baseball that would challenge the views and discrimination of the white majority.
The artwork in this book is amazing. They are full page spreads that will remind the reader of artwork in the Saturday Evening Post by Normal Rockwell. Though this is a picture book, the language is dense and long that might scare some readers away. I feel that this book would work well in getting a student to read who is interested in baseball and in a text set about civil rights in America.
Dave Pfeiff
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