Bessie Stringfield's First Ride #1

CRITIC REVIEWS

• N/A

  Pop Culture Uncovered - belleburr

  Jun 23, 2020

  In Fast Enough we get a fictionalized childhood tale about a real life lady whose story was larger than life. Bessie Stringfield was a woman whose true history well never really know as she wrote her own mythology and it became even bigger than she could imagine. What facts we do know are even more insane when you realize the time period in which she grew, the early 20th century in the American South. Thats what makes her accomplishments so extraordinary: she was the first black woman to ride a motorcycle from coast to coast; a dispatch courier for the Allies in World War 2, inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame and had multiple honors named after her. Basically? She was amazing and this wonderful little book, written and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill, is a perfect way to introduce your little one, or yourself, to a phenomenal Black lady that history had overlooked. Joel Christian Gills writing is sweet and intelligent, never talking down to the reader (as so many childrens bo Read Full Review

USER REVIEWS