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This book recreates the early life of Daniel Boone, the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.Sku: 9780020418306
Daniel Boone
By: Augusta Stevenson$10.99 -
Young Marie wants to be a ballerina, but her parents have no money for lessons. She must earn what little money she can as an artist’s model at a ballet school. Then, her life takes an unusual turn when she models for the famous sculptor, Edgar Degas. This is a title in Barron’s Anholt’s Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt’s fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.Sku: 9780764138522
Degas and the Little Dancer
By: Anholt, Laurence$12.50 -
This is a stunning introduction to Duke Ellington—a legend who continues to live on and influence musicians everywhere.Sku: 9780786814206
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
By: Andrea Davis Pinkney$12.99 -
Sample And here is a sensitive, appealing and lively biography of America’s beloved composer, Edward MacDowell, which boys and girls will take to their hearts and treasure. His Quaker beginnings, his irrepressible interest in music, his youthful triumphs abroad, his visit to the master, Franz Liszt, his romance with his pupil, the lovely Marian Nevins, their marriage and return to America, the launching of the Peterboro, New Hampshire, colony, which bears his name— these are some of the delightful stories in the rich career of America’s greatest composer.Sku: 9781933573205
Edward MacDowell and His Cabin in the Pines
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
From the Publisher: "I suffered much from Hunger, but much more from cold. In hottest summer and coldest winter, I was kept almost naked-no shoes, no stockings, no jacket, no trousers, nothing on but a coarse tow linen shirt, reaching only to my knees..."Sku: 9781958955161
Escape From Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words
By: Frederick Douglass$18.95 -
Farm Boy is the extraordinary sequel to the beloved modern classic, War Horse.Sku: 9780008612726
Farm Boy
By: Michael Morpurgo$17.99 -
In this DK Level 4 Reader, follow the amazing story of brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright as they plan and build a flying machine! Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. With DK Readers, children will learn to read—then read to learn!…Sku: 9780789492913
First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers
By: Leslie Garrett$6.99 -
This book is a compilation of biographical sketches of four of America’s most celebrated figures
Four Great Americans
By: James Baldwin$13.50 – $27.95 -
Sample This book is about the brilliant young Schubert, his merry friends, and their pranks and escapades. One interesting story in the book is the new light that is shed on the history of the Unfinished Symphony. There are many selections from the composer’s magnificent music in this volume. We have the March Militaire, the Moment Musicale, the theme of The Erlking, a dance from the opera, Rosamunde, Rondos, Dances, the lovely, lovely waltzes, impromptu pieces, the Cradle Song (a favorite of almost every child) and several of the beautiful songs.Sku: 9781933573137
Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends
By: Sybil Deucher, Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
Sample Frederic Chopin was a celebrated pianist and probably the greatest composer for the piano the world has ever known. He loved music from babyhood and when his family moved to Warsaw a few years after his birth, he was placed under the tutelage of the best masters of music in Poland. The story is told of his early years through the momentous day in Vienna when his playing at the theatre of Count Gallenburg actually launched his career as a major figure in the world of music.Sku: 9781933573113
Frederick Chopin, The Early Years
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
Sample Chopin returned to Vienna to find only a cool welcome awaiting him. Vienna wanted to dance and sing and forget war...and Poland was on the brink of war. In Paris, however, Chopin found himself warmly welcomed; his concerts became the vogue; his days were crowded with both gaiety and the work he loved. Years passed and the world hailed his greatest compositions. Then ill health began making inroads on his time and at the peak of his career, the great composer and pianist died in Paris.Sku: 9781933573090
Frederick Chopin, The Later Years
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95 -
A heroic priest meets frontier Detroit: readers are assured of a colorful encounter. The priest is Father Gabriel Richard, who was born in France in the latter half of the 18th century and had experienced the many horrors of the French revolution. After his ordination as a Sulpician priest in 1791, he himself becomes a fugitive and is forced to flee to America. Instead of his intended role of training seminarians, Fr. Richard is sent to the key city of Detroit, becoming responsible for Catholics throughout the Michigan wilderness. Here he pours out his energies for the next three and a half decades.Sku: 9781932350876
Frontier Priest and Congressman: Father Gabriel Richard, S.S.
By: Brother Alois, C.F.X$20.95 -
A fascinating picture book biography of pioneering American innovator George Washington Carver from Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Tonya Bolden.Sku: 9781419718397
George Washington Carver
By: Tonya Bolden$15.50 -
In 1924, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois (1868-1963) penned The Gift of Black Folk in response to systemic racism in the United States, showing that “...the American spirit is a new and interesting result of diverse threads of thought and feeling coming not only from America but from Europe and Asia and indeed from Africa.” Du Bois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and later became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. In 1909 he co-founded the NAACP. Du Bois was a lifelong leader and proponent of civil rights.Sku: 9781948959810
Gift of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois$14.50 -
A true story of a determined missionary, Gladys Aylward : The Little Woman will challenge you to bold and expectant faith.Sku: 9780802429865
Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman
By: Gladys Aylward$13.50 -
With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director.Sku: 9781933573038
Handel at the Court of Kings
By: Opal Wheeler$20.95