My Favorite Things…Information Picture Book Edition, Pt. 1

In this edition of “My Favorite Things”, we’re still on picture books–these are all information books via the picture book medium! There are so many absolutely true stories that fit well as a picture book. `

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After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with ‘faraway villages.’ He starts with two burros–one for himself, one for books–and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night.

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This definitive picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose dream changed America–and the world–forever.

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The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Introduces young children to the water cycle with simple text and illustrations.

Watercolor and collage illustrations depict close-up scenes of an egg or eggs about to hatch. The text hints at what the eggs contain. The book features a number of species ranging from spiders to penguins to octopuses, and the back matter provides more information about the actual size of various eggs and how they develop.

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre Audiobook Download
from: AudiobooksNow

When she came to America in 1921, Pura carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a lush landscape as generations of children and storytellers continue to share her tales and celebrate Pura’s legacy.

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Sit-In : How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down – Audiobook Download – $3.99 Sit-In : How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down – Audiobook Download – Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney; Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download)

This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement.

I have so many more Information Picture Books to share! Stay tuned!

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