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10 best books like Harlem (Walter Dean Myers): A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Working Cotton, My People, Hush! A Thai Lullaby, A Pocketful of Cricket, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0802853021
When he wrote poems, he felt as free as the Passaic River as it rushed to the falls. Willie’s notebooks filled up, one after another. Willie’s words gave him freedom and peace, but he also knew he needed to earn a living. So he went off to medical school and became a doctor -- one of the busiest men in town!...
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374470278
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei

In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the...
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
AuthorErnest Lawrence Thayer
ISBN1929766009
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather...
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0786801786
You ever hear of the jazz playin' man, the man with the cats who could swing with his band?

His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music...
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0618135472
From spring’s first thaw to autumn’s chill, the world of the pond is a dramatic place. Though seemingly quiet, ponds are teeming with life and full of surprises. Their denizens—from peepers to painted turtles, duckweed to diving beetles—lead secret and fascinating lives. A unique blend...
Working Cotton
AuthorSherley Anne Williams
ISBN0152014829
This child’s view of the long day’s work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. “With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a picture book for older readers, too.”--Booklist
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My People
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1416935401
Langston Hughes' powerful and simple poem is brilliantly accompanied by Charles R. Smith's transcendent photographs. Each photograph illustrates the beauty, depth and soul of being an African-American today. From close ups of lined hands to the joy of a baby's giggle, the photographs span ages....
Hush! A Thai Lullaby
AuthorMinfong Ho
ISBN0531071669
This is a rhyming lullaby. A mother is quieting all the animals around her while her baby is wide awake. It has a lovely rhythm to it. It is quieting for bed for younger kids. Older kids just tend to roll their eyes at this, I observed.

This might sound weird, but my favorite food in the world, and I...
A Pocketful of Cricket
AuthorRebecca Caudill
ISBN0805075240
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals
AuthorFritz Eichenberg
ISBN0808585169
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
Ellington Was Not a Street
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0689828845
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color...
Meet Danitra Brown
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0688154719
Grimes, N. (1997). Meet Danitra Brown. (F. Cooper, Illus.). New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Genre: Poetry, Juvenile poetry Recommended grade level: 3-4 Format: African American Poetry and Picture book
Themes: Friendship, bullying, and family Major Awards: Coretta Scott King Illustrator...
Just Me
AuthorMarie Hall Ets
ISBN0140503250
A repetitive story in the fact that this is the same thing over and over with different animals. It bored me. The artwork was lovely, but nothing really special either. I think it was a kind of woodcut printed out. Basically, a young boy finds a different animal each page and tries to imitate how it walks...
Goggles!
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0140564403
Generations of children have read, re-read, and loved Ezra Jack Keats?s award-winning, classic stories about Peter and his neighborhood friends. Now, for the first time, Peter?s Chair, A Letter to Amy, and Goggles! are available in paperback exclusively from Puffin.?A well-loved character, a...
Green Eyes (Family Storytime)
AuthorAbe Birnbaum
ISBN0307202038
Caldecott Honor winning illustrator, A. Birnbaum has captured the childlike wonder of each season in this 1953 picture book. Green Eyes, the curious kitten, ventures beyond his familiar big red box and greets spring, summer, fall, and winter—each with their unique colors, scents, and feelings....
Alphabatics
AuthorSuse MacDonald
ISBN0027615200
A is for ark. But did you know that if you turn an A upside down and round the point out a little, it becomes an ark? B is for balloon. But did you know that if you blow it up really big, the hole in the middle floats away like a balloon?

In this wonderfully creative alphabet book, letters are pulled, twisted,...
The Graphic Alphabet
AuthorDavid Pelletier
ISBN0531360016
A beginning alphabet book with each letter somehow using a graphic representation of a word that starts with that letter. Like ’S’ had steps carved into the letter, or ’T’ was tripping over a dot. Some letters you can see more and some letters are more abstract like C in a circle.

The Caldecott...
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
AuthorMuriel L. Feelings
ISBN0140546626
A Caldecott Honor Book

Moja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.

"Magnificient, full-page drawings throb...
The Faithful Friend
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0027861317
Clement and Hippolyte are handsome, sharp-witted, and as close as brothers. When Clement falls in love with enchanting Pauline, he bids Hippolyte to join his quest to court her, and the two friends set out toward danger and adventure.

Pauline is ward of the mysterious Monsieur Zabocat -- a...
Hide and Seek Fog
AuthorAlvin Tresselt
ISBN0688511694
This books is so beautiful. A seaside town is going about it’s beautiful business when the fog rolls in and it shuts everything down. Boats race in and parents grumble about having to stay indoors with kids. This fog last for 3 days. The only people who are ok with it are the kids who play hide and seek on...
The Desert Is Theirs
AuthorByrd Baylor
ISBN0689711050

You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter...
Shadow
AuthorMarcia Brown
ISBN0689718756
Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night

to prowl around the fires.

It even likes to mingle

with the dancers...

Shadow...

It waves with the grasses,

curls up at the foot of trees...

But in the African experience Shadow is much...
Mirandy and Brother Wind
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0679883339
“Each page sparkles with life.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
In this Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winning tale, Mirandy is determined to capture the best partner for the junior cakewalk jubilee. And who is the best partner? The wind, of course!
 
Grandmama...
Coming on Home Soon
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399237488
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...
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