The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
10 best books like The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage (Selina Alko): Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, A Family Is a Family Is a Family, City Dog, Country Frog, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Seven Princesses, Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille, Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
| Author | Laurie Ann Thompson |
Genre: Biography, picture book
Recommended Grade Levels: K-3
Themes: Perseverance, empowerment, disabilities
Summary:
This is a true story about a boy named Emmanuel, who was born in a small village in Ghana, West Africa. Emmanuel was born with one healthy leg and one leg that...
Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375839143 |
Alvin Ho is an Asian American second grader who is afraid of everything—elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most of all, school. He’s so afraid of school that, while he’s there, he never, ever, says a word. But at home he’s a very loud superhero named Firecracker Man, a brother to Calvin and Anibelly,...
A Family Is a Family Is a Family
| Author | Sara O'Leary |
| ISBN | 1554987946 |
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways — but the same in the one way that matters most of all.
One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423103009 |
In spring, when City Dog runs free in the country for the first time, he spots Country Frog sitting on a rock, waiting for a friend. "You'll do," Frog says, and together they play Country Frog games. In summer, they meet again and play City Dog games. Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0763665312 |
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.
"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 0385390289 |
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul...
Once upon a time, there were seven princess sisters who did everything together, from horseback riding to jumping in royal leaf piles to throwing legendary piñata parties. But one day, they had the biggest fight in the entire history of princess fighting. There was no worse sound than the sound of this...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0449813371 |
An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to...
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 0810938723 |
From first-time Mexican author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh comes the story of two cousins, one in America and one in Mexico, and how their daily lives are different yet similar. Charlie takes the subway to school; Carlitos rides his bike. Charlie plays in fallen leaves; Carlitos plays among the...
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 1419705830 |
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s favorite...
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 1416913890 |
Most days the best thing about being Ruby is everything. Like when she's the star of her own backyard magic show. Or when she gives a talk at the school safety assembly on the benefits of reflective tape. Or when she rides the No. 3 bus all the way to Chinatown to visit GungGung and PohPoh.
And then...
| Author | Susan Lynn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0823425282 |
Set in the South during the time of segregation, this lushly illustrated picture book brings the civil rights era to life for contemporary readers as two young girls find an inventive way to foil Jim Crow laws.
When her brother's hand-me-down shoes don't fit, it is time for Ella Mae to get new...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
With the addition of a brand-new author's...
