Dizzy
10 best books like Dizzy (Jonah Winter): Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams, Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald, The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, This Jazz Man, Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound, Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth, Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist, Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
| Author | Sandra Neil Wallace |
| ISBN | 1481443879 |
When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
| Author | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
“This lovingly crafted picture book biography centers on the incredible bond between Venus and Serena Williams…An important selection for biography and sports collections.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Will appeal to children and...
| Author | Roxane Orgill |
| ISBN | 0763617334 |
When Ella Fitzgerald danced the Lindy Hop on the streets of 1930s Yonkers, passersby said good-bye to their loose change. But for a girl who was orphaned...
The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue
| Author | Suzanne Slade |
| ISBN | 1629790990 |
| Author | Gary Golio |
| ISBN | 0618852794 |
This Jazz Man
| Author | Karen Ehrhardt |
| ISBN | 0152053077 |
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 1596439734 |
Berry Gordy began Motown in 1959 with an $800 loan from his family. He converted the garage of a residential house into a studio and recruited teenagers...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
| Author | Susan Wood |
| ISBN | 1580896731 |
| Author | Elizabeth Rusch |
| ISBN | 0763658553 |
When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks. By the time...
| Author | Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| ISBN | 0763616923 |
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. . . . I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived!"
From the moment a fired-up teenager from Kentucky won 1960 Olympic gold...
| Author | Christine King Farris |
| ISBN | 0545035376 |
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
| Author | Larry Dane Brimner |
| ISBN | 1590787668 |
| Author | Kathryn Erskine |
| Author | Barbara Herkert |
| ISBN | 1627792457 |
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten,...
| Author | Gwendolyn Hooks |
| ISBN | 1620141566 |
Me With You
| Author | Kristy Dempsey |
| ISBN | 0399250174 |
a rare and special two,
in all the ways that I am me
and you're completely you.
From tea time to game time, singing or swinging, in the good times and even the grumpy ones, a granddaughter knows her grandpa is always wonderfully himself, and she is wonderfully...
Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
| Author | Sally Derby |
| ISBN | 0763660701 |
Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as "I know why the caged bird sings" and "We wear the mask that grins...
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
| Author | Don Tate |
| ISBN | 1561458252 |
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0375856064 |
Born in a small town in Mississippi in 1927, the daughter of a midwife and a sawmill worker, Leontyne Price might have grown up singing the blues. But Leontyne had big dreams—and plenty to be thankful...
Me I Am!
| Author | Jack Prelutsky |
| ISBN | 0374349029 |
who qualifies as me;
no ME I AM has been before,
and none will ever be. Three very different children reveal their individual personalities in a series of visual mini-adventures. Readers meet a mischievous tomboy who would rather roller-skate than...