Books like Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
By Barb Rosenstock
For the kid who wants to know what's at the bottom of the ocean, the bottom of the lake, the bottom of anything — this puts them right inside the steel ball going down to find out. Tense, wondrous, and quietly thrilling, with a slow build into darkness and awe.
In 1974, a French aerialist strings a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spends an hour walking, dancing, and performing tricks a quarter mile above the city.
After the gods fail again and again to create lasting humans across five different suns, Quetzalcóatl the Feathered Serpent alone refuses to give up, journeying to the underworld to retrieve the sacred bones of creation.
A knight known as the Red Cross Knight sets out with a princess to face a dragon that has terrorized the countryside for years, in a battle that will decide the land's fate.
A brilliant astronomer turns his telescope to the night sky and discovers that the earth circles the sun — a truth so radical it puts him at odds with the powerful people of his time.
A mysterious young stranger begs King Arthur to let him work in the castle kitchen, hiding his noble blood until Sir Lancelot knights him and he sets off to rescue a princess from the fearsome Red Knight of the Plain.
A small black fish is the lone survivor of his school after a larger fish attacks — until he finds a new school of little red fish and teaches them to swim together as one giant shape to scare off enemies.
A poor woodcutter's two children, abandoned in the forest, discover a house made of bread, cakes, and candy — and the wicked witch who lives there has a taste for children.
Two sisters wake before sunrise six days a week to practice tennis, pushing through boos and taunts from a sport that didn't expect them, on their way to becoming legends.
A picture book biography of the first Black woman elected to Congress, tracing her early years, her fight for a seat in the halls of power, and her bid to become president.
A young girl rides the Silver Meteor train north during the Great Migration, watching cotton fields give way to city lights, and telling her journey stop by stop in poems.
A fearless young woman falls in love with flying after her first airplane ride, then defies people who scoff at her dreams to become a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
A NASA rover named Curiosity tells her own story of traveling more than 350,000,000 miles to Mars, where she explores a planet no human has ever visited in search of signs of life.
