14 Cows for America
10 best books like 14 Cows for America (Carmen Agra Deedy): The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
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Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving.
When an accident left Bob...
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0316070165 |
It was February 1, 1960.
They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.
A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.
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...
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
| Author | Sharon Robinson |
| ISBN | 0545052513 |
Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.
When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun....
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
| Author | Dan Yaccarino |
| ISBN | 0375855734 |
Jacques Cousteau was the world s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people s living rooms. Now, in this exciting picturebook biography, Dan Yaccarino introduces young readers to the man behind the snorkel.
From the first moment he got...
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 1416935053 |
“Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape…This is, in a word, stunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Nelson’s (We Are the Ship) breathtaking...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1584301570 |
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?
The...
| Author | Jan Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1596433388 |
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance
Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer
Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer
Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman
Award-winning...
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1423100085 |
If not for the photos, etc. I might have put this book on my historical fiction shelf, but I think the account is sufficiently accurate to have it belong on my non-fiction shelf. The author-illustrator dedicated this book to her mother and grandmother, which is fitting. Judge found a box of foot tracings...
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0618966366 |
Caldecott Honor–winning Steve Jenkins provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
Half the earth’s surface is covered by water more than a mile deep, but most of this watery world is a mystery to us. In fact, more people have stood on the surface...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 0399238832 |
The words are instantly recognizable: ?That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.? Spoken by Neil Armstrong moments after he became the fi rst human being to set foot on the moon, they have come to represent all that is possible when man's determination to achieve the seemingly impossible...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 1590789326 |
As soon as Thomas Jefferson learned to read, he found his passion: books, books, and more books! Before, during, and after the American Revolution, Jefferson collected thousands of books on hundreds of subjects. In fact, his massive collection eventually helped rebuild the Library of Congress—now...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 1426304617 |
One World, One Day uses exquisite, moving photographs and Barbara Kerley’s poetic text to convey a simple yet profound concept: we are one global family. This is a sophisticated concept book, presented as an elegant picture book with contributions from top international photographers.
This...
| Author | Nic Bishop |
| ISBN | 0439877555 |
For the first- to third-grade set, frogs are an endless source of fascination, especially when looked at VERY close up. See tiny poison dart frogs and mammoth bullfrogs, as Nic Bishop's amazing images show the beauty and diversity of frogs from around the globe. And simple, engaging text conveys basic...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375836071 |
Meet Imogene Tripp, a plucky girl with a passion for history. As a baby, her first words were "Four score and seven years ago." In preschool, she finger-painted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it's not surprising that when the mayor wants to tear down the long-neglected Liddleville Historical Society to...
| Author | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
| ISBN | 0822567644 |
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him.
As a deputy U.S. Marshal and former slave who escaped to freedom in the Indian Territories, Bass was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker heard...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0525479031 |
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 1423104080 |
From the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsettled Midwest, Abraham Lincoln knew in his heart that slavery was deeply wrong. A voracious reader, Lincoln spent every spare moment of his days filling his mind with knowledge, from history to literature to mathematics, preparing himself...
| Author | Kimiko Kajikawa |
| ISBN | 0399250069 |
Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn?t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming?something he can?t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below can?t...
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
| Author | Katie Smith Milway |
| ISBN | 1554530288 |
Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many.
After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell at the market. When his mother receives a loan from some village...
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis.
The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals,...
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books
| Author | Karen Leggett Abouraya |
| ISBN | 0803737475 |
The inspiring true story of demonstrators standing up for the love of a library, from a New York Times bestselling illustrator
In January 2011, in a moment that captured the hearts of people all over the world, thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators surrounded...
All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596432225 |
THE "UNSINKABLE" MEETS THE UNTHINKABLE -- A gripping account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic.
It took 4,000 men to build it, 23 tons of animal grease to slide it into the ocean, 100,000 people to wave bon voyage, but only one wrong move to tear the Titanic apart, sinking it into the...
