Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)
10 best books like Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) (Deborah Hopkinson): Adèle & Simon in America, Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane, That Book Woman, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks, Those Rebels, John & Tom
| Author | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0374399247 |
Adèle and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cécile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. “Please try not to lose anything on our trip,” Adèle tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0805079947 |
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn...
| Author | Heather Henson |
| ISBN | 1416908129 |
Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain....
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 0810937980 |
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
| Author | Claire A. Nivola |
| ISBN | 0374399182 |
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed....
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0060821183 |
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.
Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
| Author | Mara Rockliff |
| ISBN | 0544130014 |
Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of “Revolution!” began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or cannons, but with gingerbread!
Cheerfully...
| 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 | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0803737106 |
Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0545222680 |
A brilliant portrait of two American heroes from the award-winning creators of The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)!
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very different.
John Adams was short and stout.
Thomas Jefferson was tall and lean.
John was argumentative...
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 0375837388 |
In this striking picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what made Sandy Koufax such an amazing baseball player. We learn that the beginning of his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers was rocky, that he was shy with his teammates, and experienced discrimination as one of the only Jews in the game....
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| ISBN | 0689858086 |
Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?
Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched...
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0805082646 |
Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very...
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and...
| 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 | Kay Winters |
| ISBN | 1416912681 |
Learn about the early life of Abraham Lincoln in this picture book biography that Kirkus Reviews calls “a moving tribute to the power of books and words.”
In a tiny log cabin a boy listened with delight to the storytelling of his ma and pa. He traced letters in sand, snow, and dust. He borrowed...
| Author | Marc Tyler Nobleman |
| ISBN | 0375838023 |
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated...
| Author | Lane Smith |
| ISBN | 1423108469 |
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President. There would be executive orders to give, babies to kiss, tuna casseroles to veto (or VETO!)…and so much more! Not to mention that recess would definitely require more security.
With deadpan wit and hilarious illustrations,...
| 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...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0152050264 |
I would have to give this story four stars because it really touched my heart. It talked about a real issue like the great depression and showed you what a father will do to keep their family stable. The characters were obviously fictional although it is possible this has happened before. My only criticism...
| Author | Judith St. George |
| ISBN | 0399241744 |
Abraham Lincoln grew up poor and without schooling in a Kentucky wilderness and lost his mother before he was ten. It was sparkplug Sally Bush Johnston who married his father, brought a library of books to their log cabin home, and believed in Abe from the beginning. She was an inspiring turning point...
