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10 best books like Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald (Roxane Orgill): Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa, Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, Dizzy, This Jazz Man, Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Mrs. Harkness and the Panda

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
AuthorSandra Neil Wallace
ISBN1481443879
Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes—a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generations—with this beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0786805684
Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author Andrea Davis...
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0763618349

Candlewick Press has recently reissued in paperback Kathryn Lasky's biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker, originally published in 2000. In a brief 48 pages, Lasky chronicles the life of this remarkable woman, born into poverty to former slaves, who became a highly successful entrepreneur and...
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0805079947
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn...
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
AuthorGary Golio
ISBN0618852794
Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to records. A boy who played air guitar with a broomstick and longed for a real guitar of his own. A boy who asked himself a question: Could someone paint pictures...
Dizzy
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0439507375
This is a true story about a famous musician playing his horn, he went by the name of dizzy. Dizzy was a tiny boy so would get picked on by other kid because of it, he hated being billed so he would actually fight a lot he didn't matter that he was small he stood his ground. Except for the abuse from his father,...
This Jazz Man
AuthorKaren Ehrhardt
ISBN0152053077
In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to...
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
AuthorClaire A. Nivola
ISBN0374399182
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed....
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
AuthorMonica Brown
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.

Pablo...
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
AuthorAlicia Potter
ISBN0375844481
In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda bear.  Not many people in the world had.

But soon the young Mrs. Harkness would inherit an expedition from her explorer husband: the hunt for a panda.  She knew that bringing back a panda would be hard. Impossible, even.  But she intended to try.

So...
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
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...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805079033
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
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,...
Henry Aaron's Dream
AuthorMatt Tavares
ISBN0763632244
Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king.

Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball...
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
AuthorRobert Andrew Parker
ISBN0375839658
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly...
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805089373
In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria...
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
AuthorChris Barton
ISBN1580892973
A cool idea with a big splash.

You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the...
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
AuthorAnnette Bay Pimentel
The inspiring story of the first female to run the Boston Marathon comes to life in stunningly vivid collage illustrations.

Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's...
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
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...
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy is Enlightening
AuthorChris Raschka
ISBN0763658065
Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka shares his love of jazz great Sun Ra, just in time to mark the centennial of the musician’s birth.

Jazz musician Sun Ra (1914–1993) always said that he came from Saturn. Being from another planet, he was naturally intrigued by everything earthly — especially...
Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
AuthorSally Derby
ISBN0763660701
Discover the breadth and depth of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry—and learn how it reflects his singular life as a late-nineteenth-century black man.

Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as "I know why the caged bird sings" and "We wear the mask that grins...
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
AuthorDon Tate
ISBN1561458252
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...
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