Comments on: Don’t Know Much About the Birmingham Bombings http://www.dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-the-birmingham-bombings/ Author Kenneth C. Davis Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: vtrich http://www.dontknowmuch.com/2009/09/dont-know-much-about-the-birmingham-bombings/comment-page-1/#comment-134 vtrich Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:18:31 +0000 http://www.dontknowmuch.com/?p=1269#comment-134 Perhaps not as high profile as those other books, I found Christopher Paul Curits' "The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963" a particularly poignant story which has the Birmingham church bombing as a peripheral event in the narrative (it is portrayed as their 'grandmother's' church.<br><br>Highly recommended!<br><br>From <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/christopherpaulcurtis/watsons_birmingham.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.randomhouse.com/features/christopher...</a><br><br>A Newbery Honor Book<br>The Coretta Scott King Award<br><br>A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up. Perhaps not as high profile as those other books, I found Christopher Paul Curits' “The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963″ a particularly poignant story which has the Birmingham church bombing as a peripheral event in the narrative (it is portrayed as their 'grandmother's' church.

Highly recommended!

From http://www.randomhouse.com/features/christopher...

A Newbery Honor Book
The Coretta Scott King Award

A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.

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