Showing 1–4 of 4 titles

• Audience: All Ages
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Award year: 2016

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  Bird and Diz

  By Gary Golio, Ed Young (Illustrator)

  Spare rhythmic text and swirling abstract illustrations take readers of all ages into the bebop world of John “Dizzy” Gillespie and Charlie “Bird” Parker.

  • Nonfiction, History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763666606
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  National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More Than 200 Poems with Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!

  By J. Patrick Lewis (Editor)

  Bold, colorful photos, paired with kid-friendly poems about nature, connect readers to the outside world and show how easily poetic inspiration comes from our planet.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature
  • Notable Children's Books 2016
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9781426320958
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  Sail Away

  By Langston Hughes, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

  Poems by legendary African American poet Langston Hughes celebrate water in many forms. His words are brought to life with brightly colored collage art by Ashley Bryan.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2016
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9781481430852
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  Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

  The inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer's own words. The biography takes her from a sharecropping child to a community leader.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2016 (Honor Title), Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763665319