One late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that
would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist).Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan use this moment as the departure point ...
A Sibert Medal-winning picture book biography and perfect Thanksgiving Day read about the invention of
the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! From Caldecott honor artist Melissa Sweet. Everyone’s a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when people ...
In the nineteen fifties and early sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the
center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. ...
Very soon your child will be going to college or university. Not knowing good money
management skills will cause them to be at risk of excessive spending and debt. Financial literacy is the most important skill that your child will ...
* “The most complete and successful biography of the Führer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred
review Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal–winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture ...
2007 Sibert Medal Winner Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought
we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to ...
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERI was born at the beginning of it all, on
the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child ...
2005 Sibert Medal Winner A 2005 Newbery Honor Book "A voice like yours," celebrated conductor
Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life ...
