Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
10 best books like Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet (Andrea Cheng): All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War, Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan, Martin Rising: Requiem For a King, Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph, Barbed Wire Baseball, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems, Something to Prove: The Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe Dimaggio, The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.
Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374363870 |
Anikwa and James, twelve years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James's family has ties to the Miami community as well...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
| Author | Ashley Bryan |
| ISBN | 1481456903 |
Newbery Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless...
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0545702534 |
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* "Unique and remarkable." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Each poem trembles under the weight...
| Author | Roxane Orgill |
| ISBN | 0763669547 |
What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment for American jazz.
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1419705210 |
As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps...
When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot
| Author | Lauren Stringer |
| ISBN | 0547907257 |
The Russian artists Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky were popular in their time: Stravinsky for music, Nijinsky for dance. When their radically new ballet, The Rite of Spring, was first performed in Paris on May 29, 1913, the reaction was so polarized, there were fistfights and riots! Brilliant...
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
| Author | Jack Prelutsky |
| ISBN | 0062014641 |
The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted...
| Author | Robert Skead |
| ISBN | 0761366199 |
In 1936, the New York Yankees wanted to test a hot prospect named Joe DiMaggio to see if he was ready for the big leagues. They knew just the ballplayer to call--Satchel Paige, the best pitcher anywhere, black or white. For the game, Paige joined a group of amateur African-American players, and they faced...
When George Ohr's trove of pottery was discovered in 1967, years after his death, his true genius was discovered with it. The world could finally see how unique this artist really was!
Born in 1856 in Biloxi, Mississippi, George grew up to the sounds of the civil war and political unrest.When...
| Author | Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
| ISBN | 0983661537 |
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage--or a basketball--in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw a huge table, big enough...
Pug and Other Animal Poems
| Author | Valerie Worth |
| ISBN | 0374350248 |
In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on...
| Author | Dennis Brindell Fradin |
| ISBN | 0802721664 |
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started...
| Author | Robert Byrd |
| ISBN | 0803737491 |
In this informative book all about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, author Robert Byrd uses text and vibrant art to show the many ways Ben Franklin contributed to American history. He was a printer, writer, publisher, inventor, and founding Father of the new American nation. Most...
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 1419703900 |
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers readers a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources, archival...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763656461 |
Matt Tavares’s striking homage to one of baseball’s legends offers a rare view into Babe Ruth’s formative years in "the House that built Ruth."
Before he is known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and gets into a lot of trouble. But when he turns seven, his...
| Author | Monica Edinger |
| ISBN | 0763650382 |
Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad —and eventually makes her way home to Africa.
When a drought hits her homeland in Sierra Leone, nine-year-old Magulu is sold as a pawn by her father in exchange for rice. But before...
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 1452101191 |
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
| Author | Don Tate |
| ISBN | 1561458252 |
It seemed rather poignant that I read this book. With the last few months showing that sadly racism has not died I thought it important to introduce my son to dark time in our history...Slavery. I doubt that my son will ever understand white privilege (sadly most white people don't). But I'm happy to say...
| Author | Ji-li Jiang |
| ISBN | 1423127536 |
When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, fly kites from their roof and look down at the crowded city streets below, they feel free, like the kites. Baba loves telling Tai Shan stories while the kites--one red, and one blue--rise, dip, and soar together. Then, a bad time comes. People wearing red armbands...
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
| Author | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| ISBN | 1423134958 |
Rosa and her mama go to school together—in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves. Their school is literally a hole in the ground, where they and other slaves of all ages gather to form letters out of sticks, scratch letters in the dirt,...
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 0375868445 |
Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He hit 660 home runs (fourth best of all time), had a lifetime batting average of .302, and is second only to Babe Ruth on The Sporting News's list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
In Jonah Winter and Terry Widener's...
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0544109414 |
One hundred years ago, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood—and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands...
