This compelling picture book with naturalistic watercolour illustrations by Colin Bootman tells the story of two young girls who travel to the southern states on two successive summers to visit their grandmother. Based on real events and memories of the 1950's, it shows how the children respond to the unfamiliar evidence of segregation and how their grandmother offers a strong role-model in her proud and dignified subversion of the unjust laws which - by the time of their second visit - have been overthrown.