This charming board book from the New York times best-selling and award-winning duo celebrates sweet baby love with bouncing, rhythmic text and whimsical illustrations.

A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.

"Rhythmic text and adorable illustrations combine to celebrate all bright brown baby boys!"--

Illustrations and rhythmic text recall the December, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Describes the life and accomplishments of the son of a former slave whose unusual bulldogging style made him a rodeo star.

In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.

Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call Jefferson a hypocrite for owning slaves. Jefferson responded. This is the story of Benjamin Banneker-his science, his politics, his morals, and his extraordinary correspondence with Thomas Jefferson. Illustrated...