A review by carolineinthelibrary
Bessie the Motorcycle Queen by Charles R. Smith Jr.

5.0

A really cool, poetic story about Bessie Stringfield, a young Black woman who spent her life riding motorcycles across the country, despite facing prejudice and racism in many of the Jim Crow segregated states she rode through. I'd never heard a Bessie and I love to read stories about little known people from history, so this was a fun read! Sometimes the rhyme scheme got a little lost or muddled, but the story is so engaging I can forgive it.