Kids Book Index
Ann Turner
After a harsh life in slavery, Sojourner Truth remade her life as an orator and preacher. This biography follows her advocacy for abolition and women’s rights during the 1800s, presenting her as a figure in both movements. It also notes that she spoke for equal rights roughly a century before the civil rights movement.
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PoolJiHyeon LeeThis wordless book begins at a busy pool, where two shy children meet amid the crowd. A boy who feels overwhelmed above the water enters an underwater realm shaped by discovery and imagination. The children’s encounter becomes an underwater adventure, with quiet moments and unexpected meetings. Pastel-toned artwork carries the action from the crowded pool into the world below its surface.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy AdventureRefe Tuma, Susan TumaAn unexplained mess in the house may signal that plastic dinosaurs have arrived. The book imagines what toy dinosaurs do while everyone else in the home is asleep, presenting photographic evidence of their activities. Bold, colorful photographs arrange the dinosaurs in comic tableaux and turn an ordinary household mess into a dinosaur invasion.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
My PenChristopher MyersA young artist uses pictures and words to imagine what a pen can do. In the sketchbook-like, black-and-white illustrations, the pen rides dinosaurs, hides an elephant in a teacup, tells stories, and considers wars and love. The narrator’s drawings range across many subjects, including moments when the pen does not get a story right. The book follows creativity as a process of imagining, struggling, searching, drawing, and writing.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details