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BY PEGGY MOSS, ILLUSTRATED BY PENNY WEBER The familiar story of a new kid's struggle to fit in at school gets a wry twist in this lively picture book. Roberta receives a warm welcome from Carmen and her friends, who do their hair like Roberta does. But they turn away when she runs toward the monkey bars: they don't play on the playground. The monkey-bar kids invite her to their lunch table, but then they see her daisy lunchbox. Other kids with flowered lunchboxes wave her over, but then they make fun of her pita roll-up. The story's message of diversity comes when Anna, who likes baseball, the trumpet, car racing, and ballet, tells Roberta, "You are one of us," precisely because each one of Anna's group is different.
Tilbury House 2010 32 PP. Cloth
$16.95 (in stock)
BY BARBARA KERLEY This sophisticated yet elegant picture book uses exquisite, moving photographs from top international photographers and Kerley's poetic text to follow the course of one day to convey a simple yet profound concept: the world's inhabitants are a global family.
National Geographic Society 2009 40 PP. Cloth
$17.95 (in stock)
BY JACQUELINE WOODSON, ILLUSTRATED BY EARL LEWIS Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there and about the daring girl who sits on it, rain or shine. And one day, feeling very brave, Clover approaches Annie. After all, why should a fence stand in the way of friendship? Beautifully rendered in Earl B. Lewis's striking illustrations, Jacqueline Woodson gives us a moving, lyrical narrative told in the hopeful voice of a child confused about the fence someone else has built in her yard and the racial tension that divides her world.
Putnam 2001 32 PP. Cloth
$16.99 (in stock)
BY ELOISE GREENFIELD From his father's escape from slavery to Robeson's celebrity, as footballer and actor and singer, his suffering under McCarthyism and his powerfully expressed opinions in the civil rights movement. Ages 7 and up.
Lee and Low 2009 40 PP. Paper
$7.95 (in stock)
PATRICIA POLACCO In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
Philomel Books 1994 32 PP. Cloth
BY NIKKI GIOVANNI, ILLUSTRATED BY BRYAN COLLIER "She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask `Auntie, are you going to move?' all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, `No.'" This book presents an inspiring account of an event that shaped American history. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.
Macmillan 2007 40 PP. Paper
$7.99 (in stock)
BY CALVIN RAMSEY Ruth and the Green Book is the story of one black familys trip from Chicago to Alabama by car in the late 1940s. Along the way they encounter prejudice, but they also discover The Green Book, a real guide to accommodations which was published for decades to aid African-American travelers as they faced prejudice on the roads across the country.
Carolrhoda 2010 32 PP. Cloth
$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY BILL HARLEY Sarah can't think of a story to tell her class - until a talking ant leads her to its anthill and the ant queen sends her on a mission. A story by New England Friend and acclaimed storyteller Bill Harley. For ages 3 -8.
Ten Speed Press 2006 32 PP. Paper
$6.99 (in stock)
BY AMELIA LAU CARLING The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so beautiful, only to have it be ruined? Guatemalan and Chinese religious observances, dragon boat races and Easter processions, all weave in and out of this story.
Groundwood 2005 32 PP. Cloth
BY JACUELINE WOODSON, HUDSON TALBOT Soonie's great-grandma was just 7 when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways-maps to follow to freedom. When she grew up, she passed on this knowledge and Show Way has been passed down by all the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives. Ages 4-8 ish.
Putnam 2005 48 PP. Cloth
An African Version Of The Good Samaritan Story
BY KUNLE OGUNEYE This is the first in a series of adventures that will follow Sikulu the spider and Harambe the Hippo as they travel to different countries in Africa. In this story, they are in the village of Sioma where they encounter an old woman in need of help. The other animals all have convenient excuses for not helping while Sikulu & Harambe are the only ones who do. Based on an actual folktale, it is a great story that reinforces the beauty of kindness to young children. The book also offers a glossary of terms and weaves information about Zambian culture into the story
Blue Brush Media 2008 32 PP. Cloth
$14.99 (in stock)
How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
BY ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY, BRIAN PINKNEY This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement. "It was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus; Their order was simple; A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side." Plain spoken, but not oversimplified, a great addition to children's literature of the civil rights era.
Little Brown 2010 40 PP. Cloth
BY MICHAEL TYLER, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID CSICSKO With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. Vivid illustrations of children's activities for all cultures, such as swimming in the ocean, hugging, catching butterflies, and eating birthday cake are also provided. This delightful picture book offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children. Ages 4-8.
Chicago Children's Museum 2005 32 PP. Cloth
$14.95 (in stock)
BY DOCTOR SEUSS Four tales by the good doctor, including the "Sneetches" which is a tale about the pointlessness of prejudice. Another tale offers sage advice on not naming all 23 of your children Alan.
Random House 1961 32 PP. Cloth
BY SHARON DENNIS WYETH A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful things. Miss Delphine serves her a "beautiful" fried fish sandwich at her diner. At Mr. Lee's "beautiful" fruit store, he offers her an apple. Old Mr. Sims invites her to touch a smooth stone he always carries. Beautiful means "something that when you have it, your heart is happy," the girl thinks.
Dragonfly 2002 32 PP. Paper
A Story Of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, And Science
BY MARC ARONSON, MARINNA BUDHOS When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations.
Clarion 2010 166 PP. Cloth
$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY DEBORAH HOPKINSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES RANSOME Sweet Clara is a young seamstress and slave who transfroms her dreams of freedom into reality by piecing together a Freedom Quilt with a map of the Underground Railroad. Ages 6 and up.
Random House 1993 32 PP. Paper
BY BYRD BAYLOR, ILLUSTRATED BY PETER PARNALL Beautiful pictures and words gently teach about proper use of the world's resources and about what it truly means to be rich.
Simon & Schuster 1998 32 PP. Paper
BY MATT FAULKNER You could blame Abbey Finch. If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling forth with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored, Technicolor wonder that LuLu and Jelly are expecting. And having a drink doesn't come without a price. Celebrated author/illustrator Matt Faulkner combines colloquial, down-home storytelling and timeless images of pastoral America to create a thought-provoking account of what happens when the naive and whimsical imagination of a child is confounded by the reality of intolerance.
Simon & Schuster 2009 32 PP. Cloth
BY RUBY BRIDGES, EDITED BY MARGO LUNDELL "Bridges relates her story far more powerfully than has anyone else to date. After establishing a context for her place in the history of the Civil Rights movement, she lets her childhood memories, rather than her adult perceptions, drive the narrative, and emerges as an understandable and sympathetic young girl."-Horn Book
Scholastic 1999 63 PP. Cloth
BY JERDINE NOLAN, KADIR NELSON Born in the Wild West during a thunderstorm, Thunderstorm Rose is an unusually strong and resourceful child, can she stop a tornado though.
Harcourt 2007 32 PP. Paper
$7.00 (in stock)
BY JUSTINE AND RON FONTES This alphabetical tour of Kenya is filled with colorful photographys. Each page has simple and short descriptions, but along the way the book discusses things like religion, poaching, and the different ethnic groups - making it a perfect read for both younger children and elementary school students.
Scholastic Inc. 2004 40 PP. Paper
BY RAUL COLON, PAT MORA While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library, whilehe teaches the librarian Spanish. The story is based on an actual migrant worker [Tomás Rivera] who became chancellor of a university and where the library now bears his name.
Dragonfly Books 1997 40 PP. Paper
$6.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY DEBORAH HOPKINSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES RANSOME Dramatic oil paintings and compelling verse-like prose combine to portray the harsh yet hopeful experience of travel along the Underground Railroad. Hopkinson and Ransome revisit the theme of their first collaboration, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. This time readers journey the precarious trail to freedom with a young runaway as she escapes to Canada via clandestine routes and dangerous nighttime treks. Ransome fills in the characterizations with portraits that convey a strong familial connection and the kindness of the conductors along the way. Ages 5-10.-Publishers Weekly
Simon & Schuster 2004 63 PP. Paper
$7.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY ANN HEINRICHS Part of the excellent "We the people series" from School publisher Compass Point. A good, short but thorough introduction to the Underground Railway. Many illustrations some in color, a timeline, map and some biographies.
Compass Point Books 2001 48 PP. Paper
$7.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)
BY PATRICIA POLACCO It's time for a family reunion! when Tricia's aunts, uncles, and cousins arrive at her house for an annual family reunion, the fun really begins. And this year, Gramma has promised to teach the children something wonderful-how to catch "lightning" in a jar. With so many people and so much love, this family reunion will certainly prove to be the most memorable one yet. Ages 9-12ish.
Penguin 2007 40 PP. Paper
BY VICTORIA BOOND, T R SIMON A fictionalization of the early years of a literary giant. As a child and storyteller a young Zora tells tales of a shape-shifting gator man who lurks in the marshes, waiting to steal human souls when a real death intrudes and narrated by Zoras friend Carrie the whole edenlike community where she must come to terms with what has happened.
Candlewick 2010 170 PP. Cloth
One - Picture Book Kathryn Otoshi
Lucky Beans Becky Birtha
The Earth Book Todd Parr
In Our Mothers House Patricia Polacco
Sit-in Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney
Emma's Poem Linda Glaser, Claire Nivola
Ivy Loves To Give
Abuela's Weave Omar S. Castaneda
Sawdust Carpets Amelia Lau Carling
Before John Was A Jazz Giant Carole Boston Weatherhead
