Eric Velasquez

  • A Sweet Smell of Roses

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    Two young girls not only witness but help to change history in this inspiring and urgent Civil Rights-era picture book by three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Angela Johnson.

    There’s a sweet, sw

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    • Author: Johnson, Angela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: January 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 1416953612
    • Language: English
  • Grandma’s Gift

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    This prequel to Eric Velasquez’s biographical picture book Grandma’s Records is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional Puert

    • Author: Velasquez, Eric
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: October 08, 2013
    • ISBN10: 0802735363
    • Language: English
  • ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! the Dance That Crossed Color Lines

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    New York City’s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz.

    Millie danced to jazz in her Italia

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    • Author: Robbins, Dean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: November 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1536206083
    • Language: English
  • Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story

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    “Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)

    The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of thei

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    • Author: Naidoo, Beverley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 30 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062881795
    • Language: English
  • Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

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    In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.

    Where is our historian to give us our side? A

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    • Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: August 06 2019
    • ISBN10: 1536208973
    • Language: English
  • Buscando a Bongo

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    Where could Bongo be? Help a young boy find his beloved toy–and figure out how it got lost to begin with.

    Eric Velasquez’s cozy and playful story is now available in Spanish.

    The boy knows Bongo was

    • Author: Velasquez, Eric
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: July 18, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0823453995
    • Language: English
  • Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book

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    In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker from Harlem, made to help African Americans stay safe wh

    • Author: Bolden, Tonya
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: October 04, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0062967401
    • Language: English
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