Biographies of African Americans are important to the overall education of young readers, reminding them of the historical challenges that were faced by ordinary people.
Browsing: American History
Celebrate John Lewis’ spirit and insistence on making good trouble with the March pins, journal, and postcard book by John Lewis, Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin, inspired by the bestselling March trilogy.
Elizabeth Partridge is a National Book Award finalist, Printz Honor winner, and author of Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam.
Barry particularly likes nonfiction, and profiling mostly unknown people and events whose stories have never been told in children’s literature. He is the author of The Boo-Boos That Changed the World.
Winifred Conkling is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot.
TIME For Kids Heroes of Black History presents the stories of four great American heroes every child should know about in one volume: Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Barack Obama.
Filled with actual pictures of the white house lawn covered in sheep, as well as unique and interesting pictures of President Wilson and the First Lady, this book does a great job of spanning the historical and the entertaining.
This Little President: A presidential Primer, by Joan Holub, will capture the hearts of children, as well as the presidential history-buff in your family!
Shawn Harris is an artist and musician who lives and works in Morongo Valley, California. This is his first book.
Upon being invited to write a piece about “encouraging readers to think rather than protecting them from difficult truths,” I had to stop and think about whether or not that is in fact my central purpose when writing nonfiction books for children.