A review by choirqueer
Ruth and the Green Book by Gwen Strauss, Calvin Alexander Ramsey

3.0

This book addresses an important piece of history that often gets overlooked -- the lives of Black Americans during the Jim Crow period. The blurry illustrations made it difficult to connect with them; I certainly respect an artistic decision to use hazy images, but in this book it seemed to obscure or distract from the story, rather than illuminate it. I'm not sure if it was a font issue or a layout issue or the writing of the text itself, or some combination of those things, but I felt like it was similarly difficult to engage as deeply with the story as I wanted to. I guess it just really felt like this book deserve more attention than it got on the editing and publishing level, and I wish that it had gotten it!