Angela Johnson

"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

Recalls the unheralded men whose labors served to build the canals, roads, railroads, bridges, and towering buildings of the United States.

A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch.

Ali discovers that there is someone else that thinks snakes are beautiful and loves them as much as she does.

Inspired by his family experiences and his father's paintings, a young boy creates four poems.

A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.

Lottie Paris goes to the library, her favorite place in the world, and makes a new friend for whom the library is also a special place.

Relates a day in the life of a little girl who lives with her Papa Pete in a house across from a park.