Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences

A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.

"Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"-this stirring book celebrates the Black National Anthem and how it inspired five generations of a family... In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900. From that moment on, the song has provided...

Illustrated versions of three well-known hymns.

Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of the traditional song, "This Old Man."

A collection of 7 stories about the environment and the joy that can be found in nature.

When tiny Hewitt is born into a family of giants, everyone learns that sometimes small is best of all.

Six-year-old Lily has a best friend all picked out for play group day, but unfortunately the differences between first-graders and second-graders are sometimes very large.

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.