Emily Arnold McCully
From Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully comes the inspiring story of Cordelia, a young girl whose relationship with her neighbor, the great suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, inspires her to a remarkable act of courage. The Ballot Box ... [... more]
Random House |
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
 Inventions; persistence and a glimpse of industrial age: An elementary librarian recommended this book to me and I bought it for my elementary school as well. Stories details encourage students to think about life of a young woman during the industrial [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
Emily Arnold McCully
Emily Arnold McCully has illustrated more than a hundred books for children, including her own . She won the Caldecott Medal for her book and Arnold Adoff's [... more]
Harper Collins |
Battle For St. Michaels (I Can Read Books: Level 4 ...
Great history for kids: I am a homeschooling Mom living in Maryland and this was a great book to share with my children on local history. The children in the book are fictional, but the adults and the events are historically accurate. My 5 year old son [... more]
$12.35
Amazon.com |
Nora's Ark
Lovely book about friendship and compassion: While my 6 year old found this book "sad," we both enjoyed the true story of a flood in Vermont and how the community banded together to help each other. A good, gripping read aloud! Everything else [... more]
$18.89
Amazon.com |
black is brown is tan
Amazon.com Review: Originally published in 1973, Black Is Brown Is Tan was the first children's book to feature an interracial family. In this 21st-century version, with new, sunlight-drenched watercolors, Mom is still "a tasty tan and coffee [... more]
$6.99
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The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave ...
His teeth, his cows, and his slaves: When you consider the pedestal on which our Founding Fathers are placed in the world of children's literature, it's not surprising that the story of George Washington's slaves has never been adequately told for the [... more]
$16.00
Amazon.com |
An Outlaw Thanksgiving
No morals and teaches socialism to children: I was suckered in by the beautiful watercolors of this Victorian age and the steam engines, etc. My 3 year-old is a train addict and I thought this looked wonderful and a great way to combine Thanksgiving and [... more]
$16.99
Amazon.com |
The Ballot Box Battle
Beautiful and imaginative pictures.: This story takes place in the late 1800's when Mrs. Stanton-the famous women's rights activist-was still alive. It deals with a young girl, Cordelia, who wants to ride Mrs. Stanton's horse. Mrs. Stanton instead of [... more]
$17.00
Amazon.com |
Nora's Ark
Lovely book about friendship and compassion: While my 6 year old found this book "sad," we both enjoyed the true story of a flood in Vermont and how the community banded together to help each other. A good, gripping read aloud! Everything else [... more]
$17.99
Amazon.com |
Grandmas at the Lake (An I Can Read Book)
Kids Can Be Trusted: That's all the kids want, but their two grandmas are too busy with their conflicting parenting styles to let them get a word in edgewise. So they finally take things in their own hands and show their grandmas how careful they can be [... more]
$10.95
Amazon.com |
Little Kit: Or, The Industrious Flea Circus Girl
A happy ending for Little Kit and the trained fleas: Little Kit is an orphan who survives by selling flowers until she is hired to help the shady Professor Malefetta, who runs a flea circus and thinks Kit is a boy. This story shows how hard life was for [... more]
$14.99
Amazon.com |
