Stonewall Jackson's Black Sunday School
Grade 3–5—Sadly, this book about Jackson's time as a Sunday school superintendent in a black community is poorly done. The information is superficial, random, and disorganized; Pittman's style is unpolished. This should have been a fascinating profile; after all, Jackson would lead Confederate forces after having taught the very people oppressed by the system his side in the war sought the right to maintain. The presentation also lacks aesthetic appeal, with weirdly distorted facial features and text laid out in disproportionately small blocks of crowded lines. Pass on this one because it will neither draw in nor appropriately inform readers.—Alyson Low, Fayetteville Public Library, ARCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.