Emmett was a fourteen (14) years old black youth, who in 1955, while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The author explains who Emmett Till was at the end of the book. While Nelson has presented fifteen (15) sonnets the last is just a compilation of the first sentence of the fourteen (14) sonnets. The title also refers that this is a wreath of sonnets which is fourteen (14) sonnets where the last sentence of the sonnet and the first sentence of the next sonnet are the same or very close. I liked that Nelson explains what an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is and how she came to write it, before she presents the sonnet. Nelson has written an Italian sonnet for Emmett Till. While you will find this book listed in genres as a children’s picture book I think it is most appropriate for high school. Published By: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 2005 Author: Marilyn Nelson, Illustrated by Philippe Lardy
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