Jim Burke

The Honus Wagner baseball card is the most valuable baseball card of all time! Honus was born poor, homely, and bowlegged. He was more destined to shoveling coal in his Pennsylvania mining town than becoming one of the greatest shortstops in baseball history. He had more home runs, RBIs, doubles, triples, steals and played in more games than any other player in the National League. He was a great baseball player and some say the greatest, and...

When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey...

In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small. Featuring civil rights luminaries Coretta Scott King, Harvey Milk, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Sylvia Mendez, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mamie Carthan Till,...