Jonah Winter

Discusses the childhood of Diego Rivera and how it influenced his art.

As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.

An introduction to the men who put aside their differences to create a new kind of nation.

There once was a fact who could not lie. But no one believed him. When the Authorities lock the sad little fact away, along with other facts, the world goes dark. But facts are stubborn things. With the help of a few skillful fact finders, they make a daring escape and bring truth back to brighten the world. Because after all, "a fact is a fact" and that's that! -- from Amazon.

When Willie Mays was a boy, he kept his ears pressed against the radio listening to professional baseball and the play of Joe DiMaggio. He wanted desperately to play pro-ball but was not allowed to because he was a Negro and brown skinned people were not allowed to play with white skinned people. But there were many other Negro men who loved the game and formed their own league. Willie eventually joined them and even there he excelled above everyone...

Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings's childhood at Monticello, and, in doing so, illuminate the many contradictions in Jefferson's life and legacy. Though Jefferson lived in a mansion, Hemings and his siblings lived in a single room. While Jefferson doted on his white grandchildren, he never showed affection to his enslaved children. Though he kept the Hemings boys from hard field labor instead sending them to work in the carpentry...

Presents the life and legacy of Elvis, from his birth in Mississippi through his music career, his time in the army, his marriage, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

"In this unusual ... picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, ... picture book biographer Jonah Winter ... turns his focus to one of America's early jazz heroes"--Amazon.com.

"The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment"--