New Voices Award Honor, Lee & Low BooksEzra Jack Book Award Honor, Ezra Jack Keats FoundationEditor's Choice, BooklistBest Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education100 Magnificent Children's Books, Fuse #8 Production, SLJChoices, Cooperative Children's Book...

George loved words. Enslaved and forced to work long hours, he was unable to attend school or learn how to read. But he was determined―he listened to the white children's lessons and learned the alphabet. Then he taught himself to...

From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still's parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the...