Winter, Jeanette

A true story about a baby hippo who loses his mother during a tsunami, but finds a new home and a new mother.

Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.

Tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist who, shocked to see entire forests being cut down in her native country of Kenya, decides to take action, beginning with the planting of nine seedlings in her own backyard.

Tells the life story of twentieth-century painter Georgia O'Keeffe, focusing on her free-spirited nature in childhood and her love of the New Mexico desert.

During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.

By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

Charlie goes west to become a cowboy and also becomes one of the great painters of the American West.

A counting book inspired by Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguilar who makes painted clay figures.

Tells the true story of two red-tailed hawks, Pale Male and Lola, who made their home atop an apartment building in New York City and sparked a protest by those who loved them when the apartment board had their eight-foot-wide nest cleared away.