Kyra is Christy's best friend from the youth center. Matt and Julie are Christy's best friends on her block. When Kyra's African-American family moves into Christy's white neighborhood, Christy learns a hard lesson about prejudice....
Bold paintings on bark paper depicting characters from different cultures and a rhythmic verse follow the transformation of a tall tree in the forest into a singing fiddle at a picnic dance, showing that the power of the song still comes from the hea...
This simple story celebrates how the differences between one mother and father blend to make the perfect combination in their daughter. As this little family moves through the world, the girl notes some of the ways that her parents are different from...
Telling his nine children tall tales about such creatures as a hen that lays hard-boiled eggs, Papa Alonzo Leatherby finds his outrageous stories threatened when a blizzard freezes every word that falls from his lips....
Since the day she was born, Maggie knew she would be the loudest, fastest, best drummer in the state of Kansas, and when a disaster threatens Selena, Kansas, it's Maggie's drumming that saves the day. By the illustrator of
A highly-acclaimed author and illustrator join forces to bring readers this original folktale, which explains how stories began to be told.
In this folktale, Beno and his sister Allita live in a time before there were stories. One day, they me...