Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month this February with books from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing!
1.
Eliza's Freedom Road
An Underground Railroad Diary
By: Jerdine Nolen
Illustrated by: Shadra Strickland
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: January 4, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sent away and it is Abbey, the cook, who looks after Eliza, when Eliza isn’t taking care of the Mistress. Eliza has the quilt her mother left her and the...
Other Formats: eBook
2.
Little Cloud and Lady Wind
By: Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
Illustrated by: Sean Qualls
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 26, 2010
Ages: 4 - 8
Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and go where she wishes. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others? Will...
Other Formats: eBook
3.
All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: Cecil F. Alexander
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: 2 - 5
All things bright and beautiful; all creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful, the incredible Ashley Bryan illustrates them all!
Other Formats: eBook
4.
Mama Miti
Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: 4 - 8
Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African...
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5.
Peeny Butter Fudge
By: Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
Illustrated by: Joe Cepeda
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: September 15, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Snuggle, snuggle. Time to rest. Nana joins us in her nest. There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special! Nap time, story time, and...
Other Formats: eBook
6.
My People
By: Langston Hughes
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 4 - 8
Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribue to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the...
7.
Goin' Someplace Special
By: Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrated by: Jerry Pinkney
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: December 30, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
There's a place in this 1950s southern town where all are welcome, no matter what their skin color...and 'Tricia Ann knows exactly how to get there. To her, it's someplace special and she's bursting to go by herself. When her...
Other Formats: Hardcover
8.
Coretta Scott King
First Lady of Civil Rights (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: George E. Stanley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism. She also received many awards and honorary degrees. But before she did all of those...
Other Formats: eBook
9.
Martin's Dream
(Part of Ready-to-Reads)
By: Jane Kurtz
Illustrated by: Amy June Bates
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: November 25, 2008
Ages: 4 - 6
In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time - long overdue - for all men to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's...
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10.
Barack Obama
Son of Promise, Child of Hope
By: Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by: Bryan Collier
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: 5 - 8
Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he...
11.
Little Rock Nine
(Part of Turning Points)
By: Marshall Poe
Illustrated by: Ellen Lindner
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
There are moments in every country's history when decisions are made and actions are taken that will change the course of that country's future. Turning Points historical graphic novels bring these moments in American history...
12.
My Brother Martin
My Brother Martin
By: Christine King Farris
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 6 - 11
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated South of the 1920s...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
13.
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
By: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Illustrated by: Raul Colon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
"Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues, the Alabamy bus-rider blues. I got me a feeling, deep down inside, It ain't never ever gonna be the same." During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus...
14.
If a Bus Could Talk
The Story of Rosa Parks
By: Faith Ringgold
Illustrated by: Faith Ringgold
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: November 1, 1999
Ages: 5 - 8
If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
