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  • Black Girl You Are Atlas

    by Renée Watson ...
    A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair

    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    by Carole Boston Weatherford ...
    Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming text and vibrant collage art of lauded Coretta Scott King Award winners Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes.Our hair is a lioness, born to be wild.We pride ourselves on flair and style.Cornrows forming complex patterns. Shells and beads on boxy braids. A flowery ’fro that’s wash and go. A regal pouf that scrapes the sky. Black ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Stuff of Stars

    by Marion Dane Bauer ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    Series Book 1 - Wondrous World
    In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child.Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth ...
    A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

    by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley ...
    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews, Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Voice of Freedom

    Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

    by Carole Boston Weatherford ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    “In this stunning biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, we walk beside her through tears and smiles on a remarkable journey of resilience and determination that leaves us transformed.” — Booklist (starred review)Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Stuff of Stars

    by Marion Dane Bauer ...
    Narrated by Christina Moore ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Saving American Beach

    The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

    by Heidi Tyline King ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    This heartfelt picture book biography illustrated by the Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes, tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved.MaVynee loved going to the beach. But in the days of Jim Crow, she couldn't just go to any beach--most of the beaches in Jacksonville were for whites only. Knowing something must be done, her ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anansi and the Talking Cloth

    by Caroline Brewer ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    **Illustrated by Caldecott Honor Award winner Ekua Holmes, this modern and original Anansi the Spider story explores traditional kente-cloth making, written by award-winner Caroline Brewer, in cooperation with weaving expert Kwasi Asare.When kente-cloth weavers stop weaving, Anansi the Spider must save the city in this rhythmic African folktale, a rhyming read-aloud trickster picture book.**This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Dream Street

    by Tricia Elam Walker ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • FIVE STARRED REVIEWSVisit a truly special street bursting with joy, hope, and dreams. Inspired by the neighborhood where they grew up as cousins, this gorgeous picture book from an award-winning illustrator and critically acclaimed author is the perfect gift or keepsake for every generation.Welcome to Dream Street--the best ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Is a Rainbow Color

    by Angela Joy ...
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes ...
    A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on.*Red is a rainbow color.Green sits next to blue.Yellow, orange, violet, indigo,They are rainbow colors, too, butMy color is black . . .And there’s no BLACK in rainbows.*From the wheels of a bicycle to the robe on Thurgood Marshall's back, Black ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Voice of Freedom

    Fannie Lou Hamer - Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

    by Carole Boston Weatherford ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    33 min

    Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson's interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook