The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
10 best books like The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist (Margarita Engle): How to Code a Sandcastle, The Water Princess, Drawn Together, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Trombone Shorty, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton, Apples and Pumpkins
| Author | Josh Funk |
| ISBN | 0425291987 |
From the computer science nonprofit Girls Who Code comes this lively and funny story introducing kids to computer coding concepts.
Pearl and her trusty rust-proof robot, Pascal, need to build a sandcastle before summer vacation is over, and they’re going to do it using code. Pearl breaks...
| Author | Susan Verde |
| ISBN | 0399172580 |
Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village
With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might,...
| Author | Minh Lê |
| ISBN | 1484767608 |
Each year my family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books, and we have been doing this for years. Everyone rates each book and adds a comment and it may (or may not) affect my overall rating. This is book #5 of 2018. I read this in June 2018 but will bump up my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars because...
Alma and How She Got Her Name
| Author | Juana Martinez-Neal |
| ISBN | 0763693553 |
What's in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be.
If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...
| Author | Troy Andrews |
| ISBN | 1419714651 |
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375867120 |
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...
To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt is known as "the man with a plan," the "rough rider." His figure stands tall in American history; his legacy stretching him to larger-than-life proportions.
But before his rise to fame, he was just "Teedie," a boy with ambitious dreams to change the world, and...
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
| Author | Derrick Barnes |
| ISBN | 1572842245 |
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...
| Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
| ISBN | 1442422629 |
A riveting picture book biography of Betty Skelton, aviation and auto racing pioneer, from award-winning author/illustrator Megan McCarthy.
In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside,...
| Author | Anne Rockwell |
| ISBN | 0689718616 |
It is Fall! And for one little girl, that means the special joys of visiting the Comstock Farm: choosing the reddest apples from the trees and finding the best pumpkin in the patch. Back home, she helps her mother carve a funny jack-o'-lantern face and puts a glowing candle inside her prize new pumpkin...just...
