Nonfiction

Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and language are distilled into a picture book built around the power of his words.

Art and text together introduce Arturo Schomburg and his lifelong work collecting Black history the world tried to erase.

This biography shows how Isatou Ceesay helped transform plastic waste into community income and environmental change.

This lyrical historical picture book centers the weekly gathering place where enslaved Africans in New Orleans sustained culture and community.

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.

Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.

A lyrical cumulative text follows one worker bee through pollination, danger, labor, and return.

Children working in a community garden introduce many kinds of disability, health, and difference through direct conversation.

Detailed diagrams and friendly narration explain the life cycle and inner structures of flowering plants.