Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
10 best books like Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman (Louise Borden): Follow the Drinking Gourd, Mirette on the High Wire, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, Sootface, I Wanna Iguana, Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America, Waiting, Lola Levine Is Not Mean!, Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story, Cinder-Elly
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0679819975 |
Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by...
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0698114434 |
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boardinghouse. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she knows she must...
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
| Author | John Steptoe |
| ISBN | 0688040454 |
A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.
Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro,...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laughed and called her Sootface.
While...
| Author | Karen Kaufman Orloff |
| ISBN | 0399237178 |
Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassurances:...
| Author | Kathi Appelt |
| ISBN | 0060011076 |
Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps.
From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods of East Texas to an exciting life in the White House, Lady Bird Johnson loved these wildflowers with all her heart. They were her companions...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0062368435 |
Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor Book
What are you waiting for? An owl, a puppy, a bear, a rabbit, and a pig—all toys arranged on a child’s windowsill—wait for marvelous things to happen in this irresistible picture book by the New York Times–bestselling and Caldecott Medalist Kevin...
| Author | Monica Brown |
| ISBN | 0316258369 |
Lola loves writing in her diario and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. But when a soccer game during recess gets "too competitive," Lola accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine!
Lola feels horrible, but with the help of her...
Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0142401870 |
Hace mucho tiempo?a long time ago?there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kind-hearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but...
| Author | Frances Minters |
| ISBN | 0140561269 |
A lively new twist on an old familiar fairy tale
Readers young and old will enjoy this fresh look at the age-old tale in which an urban-dwelling Cinder-Elly used the help of a trash can, a copy machine, and even a glass sneaker to find her Prince Charming. With a jazzily rhthmic, rhyming text and...
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 2070548988 |
Tonight both kids wanted to hear the story. Amos is a mouse and Boris is a whale. They make unlikely friends and yet each is perfectly suited to help the other out of a life threatening situation. I got teary-eyed reading this. It was very touching.
The art work almost looked like water colors and...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0688147380 |
Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten's First Full Moon, Shelia Rae, the Brave is a warm, humorous, and loving story of sibling sympathy and support. Just because Sheila Rae is older, she doesn't...
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
| Author | Marcia Brown |
| ISBN | 0684126761 |
While I quite enjoyed the narrative of Marcia Brown's adaptation, I did not absolutely love it. I guess I am someone who has always as a rule liked the Grimms' version of the Cinderella tale rather more than Perrault's rendition (I might not like the violence at the end of the Brothers Grimm's Cinderella...
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0689712030 |
When you raise a child, or teach young children, there is bound to come a time when a beloved pet dies. Given that the life cycle of animals is short, it is often the first death a child will experience. This story is first person narrative of a young boy trying to comprehend and come to terms with the death...
A Thirst for Home: A Story of Water across the World
Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life,...
On the Other Side of the Garden
| Author | Jairo Buitrago |
| ISBN | 1554989833 |
ISabel debe dejar atrás su ciudad y su familia e irse a vivir con su abuela. En este nuevo lugar no conoce a nadie, y pronto comenzará a echar de menos su antiguo hogar. Sin embargo, allí no estará sola: pronto, una lechuza, un sapo y un ratón se convertirán en sus nuevos amigos y confidentes, y gracias...
