2016, Written & Illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky "What is this?" "Where did this come from?" "How does this work?" "I have an idea." Crack open any history book and it is easy to think that these vital STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) questions were only ever asked by men. This beautiful picturebook seeks to change that perception, asserting that women are not only a part of scientific history, but were a necessary part.
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4/22/2017 0 Comments Freedom in Congo Square2016, Written by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Gregory Christie, Foreword by Freddie Williams Evans Caldecott Honor Book (2017), Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustrator (2017), Charlotte Zolotow Award (2017) Set in Louisiana during the height of slavery, Freedom in Congo Square is a colorful, rhyming picturebook showing the slaves' ability to find joy and freedom, even in a world that denies it to them.
2014, Written by Joyce Sidman, Illustrated by Rick Allen Minnesota Book Award for Children's Literature (2015), Claudia Lewis Award for Younger Readers (2015), Riverby Award (2015) Written and illustrated by two Minnesotans, Winter Bees is a beautiful picturebook that explores what local animals do in the cold winter.
2013, Written by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Illustrated by John Parra Round is a Tortilla is a wonderful picturebook depicting the different shapes two Mexican children see in their everyday world.
4/22/2017 0 Comments I Have Heard of a Land1998, Written by Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Coretta Scott King Award (1999) I Have Heard of a Land is a historical fiction tale of a single black woman who makes her home on the Oklahoma countryside in the late 19th century.
2003, Written by Kathy-jo Wargin, Illustrated by Karen Latham & Rebecca Latham V is for Viking: A Minnesota Alphabet is a nonfiction picturebook detailing iconic things associated with the state of Minnesota, one for each letter of the alphabet (note: this is one of a series, with other books doing the same thing with other states).
4/15/2017 0 Comments A Penguin Named Patience2015, Written by Suzanne Lewis, Illustrated by Lisa Anchin Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee (2017) A Penguin Named Patience is the heartwarming true story of the New Orleans Aquarium penguins who are evacuated in the midst of Hurricane Katrina, told through the eyes of one of the penguins named Patience.
4/15/2017 0 Comments New Shoes2014, Written by Susan Lynn Meyer, Illustrated by Eric Valasquez Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2016) New Shoes is the story of how the industrious Ella Mae and her friend Charlotte turn a humiliating Jim Crow law into success.
4/15/2017 0 Comments Marvelous Cornelius2015, Written by Phil Bildner, Illustrated by John Parra Golden Kite Award for Picturebook Illustration (2016), Parents’ Choice Book Awards Gold (2015), Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children’s Literature (2016) Marvelous Cornelius is the story of a real garbage man named Cornelius who worked hard to keep the streets of New Orleans' French Quarter clean, and the difference he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
2015, Written by Carron Brown, Illustrated by Bee Johnson On the Construction Site is a really cool book exploring all the different things that go on in a construction site. From bulldozers to dump trucks, there so much to see—and even more to see when you shine a flashlight through the pages.
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