J. Brian Pinkney

"Usually, Brandon loves to sit in a big chair at the supper table. He loves to take a bath in the big, splashy tub, and sleep in his big, soft bed. It's fun to be big. But now Brandon has a new baby brother. A brother who gets a lot of attention from Mommy and Daddy because: He needs to have his meals in a special little chair. He needs to take a bath in a special little tub. He needs to sleep in a cozy little crib. And now Brandon isn't so...

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

"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" --

"This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.

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. Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B., members of the Little family, each present the vivid story of their young lives, spanning three generations. Their separate stories -- beginning in a cotton field in 1927 and ending at the presidential election of 1968 --...

"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--

Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.