Book Description
for Fighting with Love by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
“Before John Lewis was old enough to read the word ‘love’ in his Bible, he could feel it all around him.” The childhood and young adulthood of John Lewis unfold across this lengthy, lively picture book biography. The dynamic storytelling weaves facts about Lewis into spirited prose that propels the reader from page to page, chronicling Lewis’s experiences, influences, and growing passion for activism and justice. The narrative builds to the moment that John Lewis and other marchers for voting rights, facing “a wall of police officers,” stepped out onto the Edmund Pettis Bridge in 1965. An author’s note detailing what happened next follows. A narrative timeline and source notes are included at volume’s end. The idea of marching and marchers is a repeated motif in the marvelous artwork, which includes bold, colorful compositions spanning page spreads, along with more intimate insets.
CCBC Choices 2025. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, 2025. Used with permission.