Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad

10 best books like Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad (Henry Cole): All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, Fox's Garden, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, A Home for Bird, More, Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team, The Quiet Place, hello! hello!, Gem, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

AuthorAngela Johnson
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.

Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
Fox's Garden
AuthorPrincesse Camcam
ISBN1592701671
One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
AuthorShane W. Evans
ISBN1596435380
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.

"A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated...
AuthorPhilip C. Stead
ISBN1596437111
While out foraging for interesting things, Vernon the toad finds a new friend - a small blue bird who is curiously silent. Vernon shows Bird the river and the forest and some of his other favorite things, but Bird says nothing. Vernon introduces Bird to his friends, Skunk and Porcupine, but Bird still...
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AuthorI.C. Springman
ISBN0547610831
One magpie,
lots of stuff,
and a few friendly mice
show us that less is
more.
This innovative and spare picture book asks the question: When is MORE more than
enough? Can a team of well-intentioned mice save their friend from hoarding too
much stuff? With breathtaking...
AuthorAudrey Vernick
ISBN0547385579
The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the
1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had enough to field a baseball
team . . . with three on the bench! The Acerras were the longest-playing all-brother
team in baseball history. They...
AuthorSarah Stewart
ISBN0374325650
When Isabel and her family move to the United States, Isabel misses all the things she left behind in Mexico, especially her aunt Lupita and hearing people speak Spanish.  But she also experiences some wonderful new things--her first snow storm and a teacher who does not speak Spanish but has a big smile....
hello! hello!
AuthorMatthew Cordell
ISBN1423159063
Outside the world is bright and colorful, but Lydia's family is too busy with their gadgets to notice. She says Hello to everyone. Hello? Hello! Her father says hello while texting, her mother says hello while working on her laptop and her brother doesn't say hello at all. The T.V shouts Hello! But she...
Gem
AuthorHolly Hobbie
ISBN0316203343
Look carefully. There may be a gem in your garden.


For nearly four decades, watercolorist Holly Hobbie has drawn inspiration from the wonders of nature. During one especially hard winter, she found herself imagining the story of a determined toad's spring journey. Her vivid depiction...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
AuthorJabari Asim
ISBN0316086576
Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton...
Laundry Day
AuthorMaurie J. Manning
ISBN0547241968
In a picture book that blends realism and fantasy, a shoeshine boy is surprised when a piece of red silk falls from the sky. Trying to find its owner, he ventures up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the company of the colorfully diverse people who live in the tenement....
Abe Lincoln's Dream
AuthorLane Smith
ISBN1596436085
From the bestselling author of It's a Book comes a funny, touching tale about the legacy of America's greatest president.  When a schoolgirl gets spearated from her tour of the White House and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself. Together they...
AuthorBob Staake
"Like nothing you have seen before," raves Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.

In his most beautiful and moving work to date, Bob Staake explores the universal themes of loneliness, bullying, and the importance of friendship. In this emotional picture book, readers will be captivated as...
AuthorRebecca Dudley
ISBN1441311580
Delight young children with this endearing and uniquely illustrated wordless picture book!

While walking through the forest, Hank finds an egg on the forest floor. After spotting its nest high up in a tree, he uses his ingenuity to help get the egg home safe and sound, and is joyfully rewarded...
The Boy and the Airplane
AuthorMark Pett
ISBN1442451238
On the surface, this is a really sweet book about a boy and his airplane--something that many of us can relate to if we ever had a favorite toy as a child. The drawings are fun and simple, yet still elicit emotion as you follow the boy and his plane.

As you read, it hits you on a much deeper level--the...
AuthorMarla Frazee
ISBN1442497440
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee.

A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train...
Draw!
AuthorRaúl Colón
ISBN1442494921
Based on his own childhood, beloved and award-winning artist Raúl Colón's wordless book is about the limitless nature of creativity and imagination.

A boy alone in his room.
Pencils.
Sketchbook in hand.
What would it be like to on safari?
Imagine.
Draw!

A...
AuthorBill Thomson
ISBN1477847006
When a boy and his dog go for a hike, the boy trips on a fossil, and it comes to life, revealing an ancient plant. The boy is so intrigued that he breaks two more fossils that come to life—a dragonfly and a pteranodon. When these prehistoric creatures collide with present reality, the boy must figure out...
AuthorIngrid Schubert
ISBN1935954008
1. The Umbrella has received the 2012 Outstanding International Best Book of the Year Award and The United States Board on Books for Young People Award. 2. For children ages 3-7. 3. This illustrated literature begins with a small black dog reaching for a red umbrella, barren trees and loose leaves around...
AuthorAlvaro F. Vila
ISBN1479515469
Outstanding Picture book. Gorgeous colors used in such a way that surely depict nature's rage in a way kids can understand and assimilate. The story presents the process any family could pass if there is an emergency in their home towns. The family on this story will try to save their home but at the end...
Hunters of the Great Forest
AuthorDennis Nolan
ISBN1596438967
While their friends and neighbors send them off enthusiastically, a band of hunters--males and females--set off in search of something. They endure quite a few hardships and face challenges from the peaks they must climb and the animals they encounter. Readers will smile in delight and surprise when...
Red Kite, Blue Kite
AuthorJi-li Jiang
ISBN1423127536

When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, fly kites from their roof and look down at the crowded city streets below, they feel free, like the kites. Baba loves telling Tai Shan stories while the kites--one red, and one blue--rise, dip, and soar together. Then, a bad time comes. People wearing red armbands...
Infinity and Me
AuthorKate Hosford
ISBN0761367268
When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity?

Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder...
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