rosa

 A beautiful picture book honoring Rosa Park for her courage in the December 1, 1955 Montgomery City bus arrest. The illustrator does a wonderful work in displaying the emotion of the story-lines in each of his pictures. Rosa Park, a black American who had something to say in her quiet demeanor.

Spiders

It is filled with wonderful pictures by an award wining photographer Nic Bishop. It all information about spiders, what they like to eat how they live and how they hunt. With beautiful colors, this book can capture any ones fascination. This is one of Nic Bishop's book series of animals.

ballons over broadway

A True story how Macy's Parade got it's big balloons. Tony Sarg a puppeteer and brilliant man who displayed his big balloons on the Thanksgiving Day parade. The author used a collage of illustrations to explain how he would create the balloons that were used in the famous parade. Each page filled with wonderful knowledge of the puppeteers life and work. Meticulously done and visually enjoyable a sure eyeful for all ages.

me. ..Jane

Jane Goodall  adventures as a child living around animals. Written for children with delightful pictures tells about Jane and her fascination to animals and how the toy chimpanzee became a big impact in her life.

we are the ship

Beautiful book that took several years to make because the author wanted to capture every uniform and baseball field of that era.  It's about the history of hundreds of unsung heroes of the Negro Leagues. Who went out to do what they loved and had to endure segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay for the love of baseball.the Negro League. It is a treasure book worth having.

A book that tell what Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas, three of the most remarkable women scientists' life and how they impacted the field of primatology. It is a nonfiction book with colorful pictures that tell their own depiction of the struggles they endured as female in the science field. Very interesting and easy to read book you will enjoy to read.

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Everything you wanted to know of 19 historical people who died is here. The deaths of Mozart, Napoleon, James A. Garfield, and others; the literal dissolution of Henry VII, King Tut, Cleopatra, Henry VIII, Pocahontas, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin, etc. are all included.
It is not for the squeamish but the strong at heart. With details that are sure to make your toes curl.

A information book for children who want to know where babies come from. It is illustrated with charts and colorful pictures about embryo development. It covers all the question a child might have and more about this sensitive topic of childbirth.

The story is simple.  A monkey telling the rabbit  what he is reading is a "book". The rabbit continues to ask in computer terms what the book can do but the monkey repeats "no, it's a book." The illustration helps tell the story in which each page you can visualize each sentence. It is a funny book that any one can understand even though  it has computer terminology.

A delightful pig. A strong character who wears everyone out even herself because she is full of life always moving and doing something new. She likes to try on everything in the closet before she walks out of her room. Something the adults will like about the book is that the author added some historical paintings that go appropriately in the storyline. This is a very beautiful black and white  illustrated book.

 It is a true Hispanic story. A cockroach ready for marriage and a wise woman with a secret to help her look at the true color of her suitors. When the lizard, pig, rooster have fail the test she comes across a reserved mouse and they fall in love. The illustration at the end of the story shows that the  two individuals' grandmothers were in control of the entire situation. Just a beautiful illustration that make this book a true treasure.

The theme is that of sacrifice for the good of all. The main character is face with a dilemma  to give up her most prize possession for the gods to give rain to the people. A lesson a child can find hard to do. With a sad begging and heart wrenching middle, the end is sure to bring a happy feeling when you see that it was worth it all.