Powell, Patricia Hruby

With stirring verse and vivid illustrations, tells the life of legendary performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker.

"A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by the publisher.

A portrait of the performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker.

From the time she was a little girl in early 1900s Memphis, Lil Hardin was drawn to music. Her mother wanted Lil to be a proper lady and study classical music. But that was no life for Lil: music was no fun without the blues!.

Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

A collection of fourteen folk tales about flowers from many different cultures.

A retelling of the Indian legend which explains why the Navajo always plant a scattering of zinnia flowers among their food crops and respect every spider.