Jonah Winter
1) Frida
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Discusses the childhood of Frida Kahlo and how it influenced her art.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the East Coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
4) Diego
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Discusses the childhood of Diego Rivera and how it influenced his art.
5) Dizzy
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie.
6) BARACK
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
7) Frida
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Cuando su madre la deja a cargo de sus cinco hermanas, su padre la enseña a utilizar los pinceles y a colorear. Cuando una enfermedad la hace guardar cama durante meses, Frida dibuja para no aburrise. Cuando un accidente en autobús la sume en el dolor, Frida expresa su tristeza y depresión en sus pinturas. Una y otra vez, durante toda su vida, Frida Kahlo utiliza el arte para expresar sus sentimientos. Jonah Winter y Ana Juan se asoman a la vida...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Pablo Picasso may have been a world-famous artist, but that doesn't mean no one ever called his artwork "ugly." Any kid who's been told what to draw, or heard mean things about something they made, will relate to this story about how Pablo faced down his critics and made something truly original."--Jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"...inspired by and partially based on James Madison Hemings's 1873 newspaper interview in which he briefly summed up his family's story, including the bombshell that he was the son of Thomas Jefferson. He was the only one of Sally Hemings's children to go public with this claim" (From author's note).
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
In this striking picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what made Sandy Koufax so amazing. We learn that the beginning of his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers was rocky, that he was shy with his teammates, and experienced discrimination as one of the only Jews in the game. We hear that he actually quit, only to return the next season --different--firing one rocket after another over the plate. We watch him refuse to play in the 1965 World Series...