J. Brian Pinkney

"Owen loves soccer, but isn't the best at playing it. After a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't notice the ball rolling away from him until it's too late. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes"--

"Good friends Otter and Beaver use water and sticks for very different purposes as they spend time together"--

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

Mama Nsoso knows her chicks need a warm new house, but each day when they set out to collect sticks and mud she is distracted by good things to eat, while Little Chick stays busy gathering the building materials himself.

A black mother describes her dreams for her newborn daughter, and her hopes for a future in which her little one will grow to cross borders and bridge boundaries, be her best self, and find love.

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

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

Publisher Annotation: A rhythmic, whimsically illustrated celebration of Black and brown babies and the joy, tender moments, and boundless love shared between children and their caregivers, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning duo Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney.

This book presents the stories of 10 men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.