Books like Nacho's Nachos: The Story Behind the World's Favorite Snack
By Sandra Nickel
For the kid who wants a snack after every meal, here's proof that one clever waiter's quick thinking turned into something eaten and loved around the world. Warm, food-loving, and rooted in a real place and a real moment in history.
A porcupine named Percy loves balloons more than anything, but his prickly quills keep popping them — so he sets out to find a clever way to finally keep one.
A spider artist longs to spin beautiful webs and one true masterpiece, but is shooed from room to room of Beekman's Boardinghouse until she finally finds a home that welcomes her gift.
A young girl growing up on a Virginia farm learns to cook by feel and by season from her Mama Daisy, then carries those traditions all the way to a celebrated career in New York City.
A biography of jazz pioneer Duke Ellington, tracing his rise from playing pool halls and cabarets as a teenager to leading his orchestra through a groundbreaking Carnegie Hall performance of Black, Brown, and Beige.
A young left-handed girl picks up her brother's guitar, flips it upside down to play it her own way, and by age eleven has written "Freight Train," a song the world would come to know.
A Black boy growing up in segregated 1940s North Carolina loves to draw everything around him, but becomes a football star instead — until his dream of making art finds its way to him.
A girl from the Muscogee Creek Nation dreams of jingle dancing at the next powwow, but her dress has no jingles — so she turns to the women in her family and community to borrow theirs.
A dog named Rocket sits under his favorite tree as a little yellow bird teaches him the alphabet, letter by letter, until sounds turn into words he can read all on his own.
A boy who loves to draw anytime, anything, anywhere loses his confidence after one careless comment from his older brother — until his little sister shows him a different way to see his own work.
A true portrait of an enslaved man in 1800s South Carolina who became a master potter, shaping massive clay jars and carving his own poetry into them despite the world telling him he had no voice.
A little Chinese boy named Fish begs his father to buy him the biggest fish-shaped kite in the shop — then a great wind called Tai Fung sweeps in and changes everything.
A real-life picture book biography follows young Alma Thomas from a childhood soaking up color in Georgia to becoming a celebrated painter — teaching art for decades before beginning her own boundlessly colorful paintings near age seventy.
