Recommended Grades: 4-6 Henry “Box” Brown was a slave in the 1800’s on a plantation near Richmond, Va. Song was an important part of his life and he sang for all aspects of it. When Henry’s wife and children were…
Recommended Grades: 3-5 A young girl’s courage is tested in this hauntingly beautiful, wordless picture book. Beginning with the parallel between the title (of a wordless book) and the characters (who never speak), Cole has created a gorgeous rendering of…
Recommended Grades: 3-5 A young Frederick Douglass would not allow slavery to stop him from learning, so he asked his master’s wife to teach him to read. Once he learned how to read, those words would set him free. This…
Cathy at Reflect and Refine and Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning began this special event in 2010, after having a discussion stemming from this question: If you were stranded on an island and had to teach, what 10 picture…
Recommended Grades: 4-6 Tracing the history of the role of African Americans in America back to the Revolutionary times, Kadir Nelson weaves a tale of inspiration and injustice. Written from the view point of an elderly African American woman, you get…
Picture This! Teaching with Picture Books 