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
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...
Author | Princesse Camcam |
ISBN | 1592701671 |
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
Author | Shane W. Evans |
ISBN | 1596435380 |
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...
Author | Philip C. Stead |
ISBN | 1596437111 |
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...
Author | I.C. Springman |
ISBN | 0547610831 |
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...
Author | Audrey Vernick |
ISBN | 0547385579 |
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...
Author | Sarah Stewart |
ISBN | 0374325650 |
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....
Author | Matthew Cordell |
ISBN | 1423159063 |
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...
Author | Holly Hobbie |
ISBN | 0316203343 |
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
Author | Jabari Asim |
ISBN | 0316086576 |
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...
Author | Maurie J. Manning |
ISBN | 0547241968 |
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....
Author | Lane Smith |
ISBN | 1596436085 |
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...
"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...
Author | Rebecca Dudley |
ISBN | 1441311580 |
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...
Author | Mark Pett |
ISBN | 1442451238 |
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...
Author | Marla Frazee |
ISBN | 1442497440 |
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...
Author | Raúl Colón |
ISBN | 1442494921 |
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...
Author | Bill Thomson |
ISBN | 1477847006 |
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...
Author | Ingrid Schubert |
ISBN | 1935954008 |
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...
Author | Alvaro F. Vila |
ISBN | 1479515469 |
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
Author | Dennis Nolan |
ISBN | 1596438967 |
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...
Author | Ji-li Jiang |
ISBN | 1423127536 |
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...
Author | Kate Hosford |
ISBN | 0761367268 |
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...