![]() Wanting the students to experience this picture book in the same way that young children usually do, I opened the book and started reading out-loud about eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot and her love of spending time on the roof of the tenement building where she lives with her family. I was looking at Ringgold’s two Tar Beach quilts when I flashed back to a graduate seminar I taught on urban children’s literature, where I devoted an entire class session to picture books set in cities, including Ringgold’s Tar Beach. ![]() I recently visited Faith Ringgold: American People, the New Museum’s retrospective exhibit of Ringgold’s art. He is especially interested urban children’s literature. West is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. ![]() Claiming New York in Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach ![]()
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