Maps and Geography
10 best books like Maps and Geography (Ken Jennings): Strange Fruit, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution, Mr. Ferris and His Wheel, Harlem Hellfighters, Elizabeth Started All the Trouble, Human, Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution, The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation, Diana's White House Garden
| Author | Gary Golio |
| ISBN | 1467751235 |
This is a tough one. “Strange Fruit,” a protest song about the lynching of Black Americans, was Billie Holiday’s powerful signature. In concert and on record, her rendition was chilling and emotional.
So, Gary Golio’s attempt to develop a picture book based on Billie Holiday’s...
| 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 | 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 | Kathryn Gibbs Davis |
| ISBN | 0547959222 |
Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 1568462468 |
"Lewis's poetics are perfectly complemented by Kelley's evocative pastel illustrations, which both inspire and unsettle." –New York Times
They went by many names, but the world came to know them best as the Harlem Hellfighters. Two thousand strong, these black Americans from New York...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786851422 |
She couldn't go to college.
She couldn't become a politician.
She couldn't even vote.
But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her.
She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men-and that included the right...
| Author | Robert Winston |
| ISBN | 0756605202 |
A highly comprehensive and illustrated account of what makes us what we are: how we evolved, how our bodies work and develop, and how we think and behave, this unbelievable reference examines the qualities all humans share but also highlights the diversity of human society and culture. Profiling more...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596432667 |
Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.
In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat...
| Author | Jonathan Hennessey |
| ISBN | 0061969761 |
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America.
Most of us can recall “Four score and seven years...
| Author | Elisa Carbone |
| ISBN | 0670016497 |
Diana Hopkins lived in a white house. THE White House.
World War II is in full force across the seas. It's 1943, President Roosevelt is in office, and Diana's father, Harry Hopkins, is his chief advisor. And Diana wants to be part of the war effort. After some well-intentioned missteps (her quarantine...
| Author | Elizabeth Rusch |
| ISBN | 0547503504 |
“At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide...
The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
| Author | Anita Silvey |
| ISBN | 0374309086 |
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth-...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 1596437804 |
Celebrated author-illustrator and master explainer David Macaulay brings his unique voice and style to high-interest nonfiction books for newly independent readers.
Everyone knows what a toilet is for, right? But what exactly happens after you flush? Where does our waste go, and how is...
| Author | Christine King Farris |
| ISBN | 0545035376 |
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...
| Author | Peter Goes |
| ISBN | 1776570693 |
From the Big Bang to the present day, illustrated scenes tell the history of our planet in one continuous story.
A perfect introduction to history for young and old, this illustrated journey through our world’s culture and events travels from the Big Bang to the iPod and into the future.
This...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0547716389 |
Ride alongside the author Pamela S. Turner and her scientific team and meet a cast of dolphin characters large enough (and charismatic enough) to rival a Shakespearean play—Puck, Piccolo, Flute, and Dodger among them. You will fall in love with this crew, both human and finned, as they seek to answer...
| Author | Jane Price |
| ISBN | 1894786890 |
With the intriguing idea of exploring what lies below the surface of the Earth as its broad theme, this fascinating book cleverly dices up the subject into small, more manageable pieces ready to be devoured by young readers, particularly boys. The basics are covered in detail, such as the physical properties...
| Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
| ISBN | 0375944605 |
Most people know the story of Balto, the world famous dog who led his dogsled team through a blizzard to deliver a lifesaving serum to the stricken people of Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Balto shot to instant stardom—a company named dog food after him, a famous sculptor erected a statue of him that stands in...
Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games.
In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0547903782 |
Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, "the other Ellis Island" processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea....
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0547959079 |
In his eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, the Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes—clusters of light-sensitive...
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0152059091 |
Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work—and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it’s believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubbles? That Albert Einstein loved to collect joke...
