![A Picture Book of Louis Braille](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0823414132.jpg?itok=Fbg2bdfH)
The story of Louis Braille, the Frenchman who invented the raised-dot alphabet/code now used around the world by blind and visually impaired readers. The text traces Braille’s life from the childhood accident that caused him to lose his sight through his career at the National Institute for Blind Children in Paris. Readers can feel the alphabet and numbers from 1-10 at the back of the book.
A Picture Book of Louis Braille
![Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805091084.jpg?itok=ULhHkCWP)
With a light touch, readers meet Thomas Alva Edison in his world of research and development. It was Edison’s lab that led to things we take for granted today. For example, today we have all kinds of batteries but it all started with Edison’s nickel-iron storage battery. Cartoon illustrations add humor to this lighthearted but informative look at this inventor and his work.
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
![Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596435291.jpg?itok=GwUYdVX6)
Born in 1923 in Strasbourg, France, Marcel Mangel grew up watching silent movies. When he was 16 years old, World War II started. Marcel joined the resistance movement, heroically helped people, and changed his name to Marceau. Understated narration combines with expressive illustrations to evoke the changes in Marcel’s life while capturing his voiceless acting.
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
![Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1590787218.jpg?itok=Eq6XwfhG)
Molly was a cook at a firehouse but a snowstorm and influenza in 19th century New York turned Molly into a firefighter. Her quick thinking and moxie made her volunteer service as good as any man’s. Animated language and lively illustrations bring the person and her time into focus. Endnotes separate fact and fiction and provide additional resources and information.
Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter
![Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0547612184.jpg?itok=bczBqvvl)
Martin and his sister grew up in a Lima, Peru, barrio, children of an African slave and a Spanish nobleman. Martin was apprenticed to a cirujano, would join a Dominican monastery, and later become sought after as a healer. Jewel-like illustrations complement the accessible telling to reveal a man of faith and courage, despite the prejudices he confronted.
Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
![It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1600602606.jpg?itok=s_G9F3f0)
A former slave and sharecropper Bill Traylor moved to the city after his wife’s death. Though he stored up memories of farm life and family, Traylor only began creating art in his 80s when he was homeless. Another artist, Charles Shannon, championed Traylor’s work. Traylor is now considered among the most significant of self-taught folk artists.
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
![If You Spent the Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805091378.jpg?itok=Iff-Tr-x)
Who is Henry David Thoreau? What would it be like to spend a day with him? A contemporary boy depicted in blue jeans and a t-shirt knocks at his door and meets the 19th century Thoreau, as the imaginative text fills in what it might have been like. Expressive illustrations, quotes, and gentle interpretations bring Thoreau and his world to light for younger readers.
If You Spent the Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond
![I, Galileo](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375867538.jpg?itok=PvqwFegA)
The voice of an old, blind Galileo Galilei is used to look back on a life that started in Pisa where early on he challenged tradition. Though confined, the elderly Galileo asserts that, “The truth has a way of escaping into the light.” Bold lines border illustrations to evoke time and place, enhanced by spot illustrations of Galileo’s work and observations.
I, Galileo
![""](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/2023-06/harlems-little-blackbird.jpg?itok=qxjd6vVz)
Bold, bright illustrations and a cheerful text that includes song lyrics introduce the life of an early 20th century African American performer. Though part of the Harlem Renaissance, Mills is a relative unknown who both on and off stage worked to help other African Americans and those who were less fortunate than she. An author’s note concludes this charming life sketch.
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
![From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596435429.jpg?itok=WThz7tQ4)
The world changed when rags and bone, sticky stuff, and other things came together in the hands of a man who lived in the German city of Mainz. Johannes Gutenberg had printed a book in a new way. Readers will be drawn in as the elements Gutenberg used unfold, illustrated in handsome, realistic illustrations. An epilogue completes this intriguing book.
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
![Native Athletes in Action (Native Trailblazers)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0977918300.jpg?itok=Ha-wf_-b)
“Along with well-known figures such as Jim Thorpe and National Hockey League hit man Jordin Tootoo, Schilling introduces Olympic wheelchair racer Cheri Becerra-Madsen, speed skier Ross Anderson, ice dancer Naomi Lang, and eight other less-familiar Native American athletes of the present and recent past. Most of the portraits are based on personal interviews; all include tribal affiliations, career notes (sometimes in boldface), brief sidebars, and small, black-and-white action photos.” — Booklist
Native Athletes in Action (Native Trailblazers)
![Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0810983990.jpg?itok=w18yEJBQ)
“This handsomely designed, large-format book tells the story of Black Elk (1863–1950), a Lakota man who saw many changes come to his people. In this first-person, present-tense account, Black Elk says that as a nine-year-old boy, he is blessed with a Great Vision. At 12, he fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn. After traveling in Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and, later, experiencing the massacre at Wounded Knee, he retreats to a reservation, where he holds his vision in his heart and offers it to others.” — Booklist
Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story
![Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1561455954.jpg?itok=8-atoGFB)
Dickens’s England comes to life from the perspective of an alley cat.
Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
![Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545399971.jpg?itok=MB46-3xb)
Readers are encouraged to tell the story of a brave farm girl who provides food to someone who has escaped in this sophisticated, expressive, wordless book. Inspired by family stories, the author allows adults to fill in the historical detail while children recognize the story’s power.
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
![The World's Greatest Lion](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/039925417X.jpg?itok=GXAIvPcl)
The story of Zamba, an orphaned lion is dramatically told in highly realistic watercolors and a vibrant narrative. Named for his native Zambia, Zamba’s gentle nature made his a film star but he became a hero rescuing animals from a flood. This touching tale is based on an actual lion.
The World’s Greatest Lion
![Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061455156.jpg?itok=EWO9tMkR)
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, changed his world “seed by seed, deed by deed” as this handsome book encourages readers to do. Children are encouraged to celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s anniversary every autumn by planting seeds literally and figuratively.
Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John “Appleseed” Chapman
![Land of Milk and Honey](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060253835.jpg?itok=ymXT9I_h)
The author recounts her family’s move by train from Oklahoma to California, the “land of milk and honey.” Evocative language and luxurious illustration create a warm recollection from a child’s perspective.
Land of Milk and Honey
![Abe Lincoln's Dream](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596436085.jpg?itok=WcFJb8Yb)
When Quincy leaves her tour of the White House, she sees a tall man standing over the Gettysburg Address. Quincy shares jokes with the ghost and helps him realize that the states are indeed united. The tall, pale ghost of Abe Lincoln can now rest easy.
Abe Lincoln’s Dream
![Laundry Day](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0547241968.jpg?itok=cLdZHcKM)
As a young shoeshine boy tries to return the red scarf that floats down to him, he meets a host of people from different backgrounds. He finally locates the rightful owner of the scarf and winds up with a happy surprise. Illustrations in comic book style move the satisfying story quickly.
Laundry Day
![Starry River of the Sky](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316125954.jpg?itok=6e3fYeLC)
Rendi, a self-centered, unhappy boy runs away from home and winds up in a sad town. Storytelling, however, instigated by a mysterious newcomer allows Rendi to mature and help the villagers. The rich narrative incorporates tales inspired by Chinese tales in this worthy companion to Where the Mountain meets the Moon (opens in a new window).
Starry River of the Sky
![Moby Dick: Chasing the Great White Whale](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0312662971.jpg?itok=hpE6K-yz)
Herman Melville’s classic tale of the great white whale and the sea captain who sought him has been recast and simplified. The rhyming ballad is reminiscent of a sea chantey, capturing essential plot elements. Lush illustrations lighten the tone for young, contemporary readers.
Moby Dick: Chasing the Great White Whale
![I Have a Dream](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375858873.jpg?itok=w9CphGl-)
Perhaps one of the best known speeches of the 20th century, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” has been combined with lush paintings in a large format for a new generation. Included in this stunning book is a CD of Dr. King’s original speech.
I Have a Dream
![The Hero of Little Street](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1596437294.jpg?itok=53RyHPfo)
A red-shirted boy is pursued by boys angered when their soccer ball winds up in a fountain. He takes refuge in an art museum which begins a fantastical adventure involving paintings-come-to-life, a wicked butcher, a dog, and lasting friendship — all through expressive, comic illustrations.
The Hero of Little Street
![Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0756954819.jpg?itok=5mnSvVGs)
This companion volume to Annie and Jack’s colonial adventure (Thanksgiving on Thursday in the Magic Tree House (opens in a new window)), provides information about those who arrived on the Mayflower, what they confronted, and more. Illustrations enhance the accessible information, as do occasional asides from Jack and Annie.