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Barbara Brenner,Leo Dillon,Diane Dillon
Rhymed text and illustrations relate how Wizard Gray changed his very gray world with color.
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Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.
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Leo Dillon,Diane Dillon
A tribute to peace and a celebration of diverse cultures, this last collaboration by the two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team captures the wondrous joy of all people, and the unique…
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This simple book for young children tells the story of African-American tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson, who was famous in the 1920s and talked with his feet. Full color.
Dillon Leo Diane
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Virginia Hamilton
In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.
Eloise Greenfield
(Touches) the important aspects of a child’s life, the people and things (a child) loves and laughs, cries, or wonders about … Fully imagined graphics (by the winners of the…
Katherine Paterson
Brilliant paintings illuminate this retelling of a popular Japanese folktale. Coveting a mandarin duck for his plumage, a greedy lord captures and cages him. The kitchen maid releases the bird…
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
A Masai tale, presented in the form of a play, in which the frog gets the job of getting a monster out of the rabbit’s house after the leopard, elephant…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 1985, and subsequently published in different form by…
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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Verna Aardema
A mosquito’s lie sets off a series of reactions in the jungle that results in the owl’s refusal to wake the sun and the lion’s decision to call a meeting…
In the tradition of Hamilton’s The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story…
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Margaret W Musgrove
Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of African culture. Another virtuoso performance… . Such an astute blend of aesthetics and information…
Erik Christian Haugaard
Erik Christian Haugaard’s Hakon of Rogen’s Saga is a remarkable novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period…
The sequel to Hakon of Rogen’s Saga, this book is told from the point of view of a slave girl, Helga, who stows away on the longship when Hakon, the…
Sharon Bell Mathis
This Newbery Honor Book tells the story of a boy and his hundred-year-old great-great-aunt in … a quietly intense story, illustrated with sepia pictures that make dramatic use of chiaroscuro…
Linda C. Cain,Susan Rosenbaum
Originally published in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1973 by Ginn and Co.
Margaret Wise Brown
Where has the Little Old Cat been?
To see this and that Said the Little Old Cat …
Where does the Little Old Fish swim?
Wherever I wish Said the…
Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.
