Books like The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
By Barbara Kerley
For the kid who lines up every dinosaur figure by size and demands to know exactly what they looked like, this book meets that obsession with a true story about the man who first tried to answer it. Reverent, sweeping, and quietly dramatic, with the hush of a museum hall and the thrill of discovery.
A Frenchman named Louis Bleriot falls in love with flying machines and, after a string of failed contraptions, builds the plane that will attempt something no one has ever done: fly across the English Channel.
A famous composer must write a new piano concerto for Vienna's Burgtheatre but has no notes to give it — until his pet starling's song sparks his imagination, and then she escapes out the window.
A quiet, piano-loving boy — the son of a man once enslaved — grows up to compose music so joyful and rhythmic it earns him a new name: the King of Ragtime.
A clever spider man sets out to buy all the world's stories from the Sky God, who demands an impossible price: a fierce leopard, a fire-stinging hornet, and a fairy no one can see.
Since the first mysterious bones turned up in 1822, scientists and artists have kept redrawing the dinosaur called Iguanodon, restarting from scratch every time a new fossil discovery proves them wrong.
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.
A boy and his dog believe a few falling snowflakes will turn into something wonderful, even while every grown-up around them insists it's nothing at all.
A born builder who once made a tower from diapers and glue faces a teacher who despises architecture — until a class picnic goes wrong and his skills turn out to be exactly what's needed.
A collection of poems invites young readers through seven die-cut doorways into moods and moments — a dragon piñata, an alligator on the A train, a hungry yeti — turning everyday feelings into flights of imagination.
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 true story of a small boy in New Orleans's Tremé neighborhood who plays a trombone twice his size, chasing music even without money for an instrument, until Bo Diddley calls him up on stage.
A poor boy who longs to paint is given a magic paintbrush that brings to life whatever he creates, until a greedy emperor sets out to capture him and claim its power for himself.
