Skip to main content

Results for "Velasquez, Eric"

Current price: $12.95
Paperback
ISBN: 9781620148594

Storyline Online Selection - SAG-AFTRA Foundation / Storyline Online

The story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a "whites-only" high school.

Now in...

Read More about As Fast as Words Could Fly
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Current price: $18.99
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780823449187

How does a bear go to the ballet? A polar bear escapes into New York City in this heartfelt picture book from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez.

A wordless story of unlikely friendship that celebrates art and its ability to connect us. However, this picture book also opens a...

Read More about The Polar Bear and the Ballerina
On Our Shelves Now - Click Title for More Details

A little girl loves the gorgeous freckles that adorn her face and make her special. no matter what anyone else says, in this fresh, lively picture book perfect for fans of I Am Enough and Skin Like Mine.

Pecosita has the most magnificent face full of freckles. Her abuela says they make her shine as...

Read More about Pecosita's Freckly Freckle Face
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life...

Read More about Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker from Harlem, made to help African Americans stay safe while traveling during segregation.

As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey...

Read More about Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

Newbery Honoree Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez—the team behind Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library—reunite to take full measure of an iconic performer and political activist.

Paul Robeson rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, known for his...

Read More about Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (A Biography Celebrating Black History, Civil Rights, and the Power of Art - For Kids Ages 9-12)
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

“Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)

The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country.

Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi...

Read More about Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life...

Read More about Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

“The Spanish text is both conversational and informative, liberally using such words as ‘giraban,’ ‘vibraban,’ and ‘meneaba,’ which will allow readers to feel the electricity of this music and dance move as they read.” —Booklist

Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que...

Read More about ¡Mambo mucho mambo! El baile que atravesó la barrera del color
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days