Jacqueline Woodson’s story of the strong women in her family who used their gifts of sewing to make quilts that showed the way North to slaves in the South. Colorfully illustrated by Hudson Talbott, this book uses quilting to illustrate Woodson’s historical tale.
Richard Michelson’s picture book Happy Feet (illustrated by E.B. Lewis) brings to life Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom through the eyes of Happy Feet. Through Happy Feet’s eyes we meet Stretch, Musclehead, Whitey, Long-Legged George and Big Bea, who were famous Lindy Hop dancers at the Savoy Ballroom. Celebrate dance and a bit of the history of Harlem in the 1920s by checking this out.
Shane Evans’s picture book We March follows a family as they participate with more than 250,000 other people gathering peacefully in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 with hopes of moving our country toward racial equality. On this day in history, the protesters marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial to listen to famous musicians and speakers. It was on this date that Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Jamie Watson received a scholarship to play rugby at Sherringford, a private school in Connecticut. So he leaves his mom in London and makes his way to Connecticut near his estranged father who he hasn’t seen since he was ten years old. At Sherringford, Watson runs into Charlotte Holmes, the great, great, great granddaughter, of Sherlock Holmes. Jamie is the great, great, great grandson of John Watson. Is it a coincidence that these two have ended up at the same boarding school? Of course not, for soon there’s a murder of a student on the Sherringford campus, and Jamie and Charlotte are both considered prime suspects. But things are never as simple as they seem. Someone is using the mysteries Sherlock Holmes to frame this new pair of Holmes & Watson. Holmes’s skills of deduction and Watson’s trust and loyalty will be tested to the limits.