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From Publishers Weekly
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Gr 1-4-A story of friendship across a racial divide. Clover, the young African-American narrator, lives beside a fence that segregates her town. Her mother instructs her never to climb over to the other side because it isn't safe. But one summer morning, Clover notices a girl on the other side. Both children are curious about one another, and as the summer stretches on, Clover and Annie work up the nerve to introduce themselves. They dodge the injunction against crossing the fence by sitting on top of it together, and Clover pretends not to care when her friends react strangely at the sight of her sitting side by side with a white girl. Eventually, it's the fence that's out of place, not the friendship. Woodson's spare text is easy and unencumbered. In her deft care, a story that might have suffered from heavy-handed didacticism manages to plumb great depths with understated simplicity. In Lewis's accompanying watercolor illustrations, Clover and her friends pass their summer beneath a blinding sun that casts dark but shallow shadows. Text and art work together beautifully.-Catherine T. Quattlebaum, DeKalb County Public Library, Atlanta, GA
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
That summer the fence that stretched through our town seemed bigger. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Poignant tale reflecting America's "Apartheid",
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This review is from: The Other Side (Hardcover)
What baby boomer cannot relate to a book that portrays the "dividing line" that separated blacks and whites in this country prior to the Civil Rights Movement!!!This story shows two youngsters, one black and one white, that come to bridge the gap by making a simple gesture of sitting on the fence that comes between their two homes. Such a simple act has great power and the book is perfect for primary and elementary learners, thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated.
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On the Fence,
By Emily (Lafayette, Louisiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Other Side (Hardcover)
This picture book is an excellent book. It helps explain in simple terms what life was like during the civil war. The story involves two girls, one is white, the other is African American. They live on either side of a fence. Their mothers tell them that they can not cross the fence, the girls listen to their mothers for a while and sit on the fence but never crossing it. After a while the girls eventually cross the fence, and suprisingly no one seems to mind, so they continue their friendship.
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A must have for the 3-5 grade classroom,
By Mrs. Tiffany Regan "Professor at Metro State ... (Parker, CO, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Other Side (Hardcover)
This is a touching story about how children don't see black and white, but see potential friendship and possibilities. Two little girls learn how to work around "the fence" that adults have constructed and find a friend. For teachers, this is a fabulous book for teaching questioning strategies in reading. The illustrations are wonderful.
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