Hilary's Reviews > Nina: A Story of Nina Simone

Tracie Todd's lyrical text is enhanced by Caldecott/Coretta Scott King Honors illustrator, Christian Robinson's collage/digital artwork. Does not shy away from describing racial discrimination Simone experienced growing up -- even at a public library at the first concert she gave, where her parents were asked to give up their seats to a white couple. While the brief bio is ostensibly about how Eunice Wayman became Nina Simone, it is equally about the birth and rise of the civil rights movement.