James Ransome

Tom enjoys the thrill of riding his brand new bicycle, and then shares it with a friend.

A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.

A lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman honors the woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life, discussing her roles as a slave, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a nurse, a Union spy, and a suffragist.

"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--

A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.

In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home

In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.

"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...

"Jazz icon Sonny Rollins found an inspired spot to practice his saxophone when his neighbors complained"--

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.