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10 best books like Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality (Jonah Winter): Before She Was Harriet, Malala's Magic Pencil, The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague, The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid, Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos, Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México, Silent Days, Silent Dreams, Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Before She Was Harriet
AuthorLesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN0823420477
A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse and illustrated by an award-winning artist.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad....
Malala's Magic Pencil
AuthorMalala Yousafzai
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood.

Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.

As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for...
AuthorJulia Finley Mosca
ISBN1943147426
Meet Raye Montague--the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy!

After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping...
AuthorJeanette Winter
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017
Parents’ Choice Recommended

Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect’s life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.

Zaha Hadid grew up...
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
AuthorMonica Brown
ISBN0735842698
The fascinating Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her dramatic self-portrait paintings featuring bold and vibrant colors. Her artwork brought attention to Mexican and indigenous culture with images renowned in celebrating the female form.

Brown's story recounts Frida's...
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
AuthorDerrick Barnes
ISBN1572842245
The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes boys sharper, more visible, more aware of every great...
AuthorLaurie Wallmark
“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.” The picture book biography of Grace Hopper—the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science.

Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor,...
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN1419725327
Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.

Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.

Danza!...
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0545927617
James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language.

Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major...
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history.

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance...
AuthorMichael James Mahin
ISBN1481443496
A picture book celebration of the indomitable Muddy Waters, a blues musician whose fierce and electric sound laid the groundwork for what would become rock and roll.

Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues wouldn’t put food on the table, Muddy...
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
AuthorDebbie Levy
ISBN1481465597
Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—in the first picture book about her life—as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing...
Yo Soy Muslim: A Father's Letter to His Daughter
AuthorMark Gonzales
ISBN1481489364
A Huffington Post Most Powerful Children’s Book of 2017

From Muslim and Latino poet Mark Gonzales comes a touching and lyrical picture book about a parent who encourages their child to find joy and pride in all aspects of their multicultural identity.

Dear little one,
…know...
A River
AuthorMarc Martin
ISBN0670077445
~ review copy from the publisher

A RIVER is a magical book, a pretty book. A RIVER begins with an artist sitting at a desk in front of two windows. Flowing off to the left and right is green hued river that is weaving it's way through a city. It's not clear whether the figure is an adult or a child. It...
King of the Sky
AuthorNicola Davies
ISBN1406348619
In this tale of a young boy, an old man, and a dauntless pigeon, a lyrical text and extraordinary illustrations offer a gorgeous meditation on loneliness, belonging, and home.
A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land....
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