J. Brian Pinkney

Carter gets a truck instead of a much wanted puppy, but he soon discovers his new toy is just as fun and rascally as a pet.

An introduction to a great civil rights leader.

"Follow a little girl as she moves, swings, and grooves her way through her bedtime routine, dancing all the while, until she finally closes her eyes and dances through her dreams"--

The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers.

Illustrations and rhythmic text recall the December, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.

"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--

"Confused and distraught after the death of his father, a boy opens an envelope he left behind and is surprised to find a map of the woods beyond their house, with one spot marked in bright red. But why? The woods had been something they shared together, why would his father want him to go alone? Slowly, his mind settles as he sets off through the spaces he once explored with his dad, passing familiar beech and black oak trees, flitting Carolina wrens,...