Author: Faith Ringgold
Illustrator: Faith Ringgold
Title: Tar Beach
Genre: Children’s picture book, realistic fiction
Sub genre: African American history/Dreams
Theme: Fiction
Primary and secondary characters: Cassie Louise Lightfoot, mom, dad, Be Be
Date: 1991
Award: Coretta Scott King Award/ Caldecott
Publisher Company: Crown Publishers
Brief summary on how to use for students: This book can give a child a better understanding of the African American history. This story can also tell students to never give up on your dreams; you can do anything you put your mind to.
Summary: Cassie Louise Lighfoot is an eight year old in 1939 and she has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night on the top of the rooftop “Tar Beach” which is her home rooftop in Harlem, her dreams come true. She flies all over the city and she claims buildings of her own so her father will not have to worry about not being able to join any clubs. Anyone can fly “all you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. Next thing you know you’re flying among the stars”.
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